From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 24 11:37:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69731065673; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:37:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F63A8FC0A; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcje9 with SMTP id je9so1142658bkc.13 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:37:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=QBFQCd80Ay4QDhCSSiFMLfwJzI3Xl3KqTAFZJen+82U=; b=uDAhP2xOtFx8rT8KnY3u7mPYCrDjVzxQdUL6IY87ouRyMOwR9Rva++63ivDoIIvZzx cl5m1QQGZDL2WlAqYDnvHjI5LpHXXzi9fgatin3RNDSvQSpBdO0ndFEtwghcvuY4m5ww R6C6oea8mY6+9nCDKDvWop3Ivms2TDole8NDFJSQQRPH1gxYQl6JuuBs8CGW2qBQTyF5 bFfu+5CSG4JhPjS/nRYBMQws+tsU7f7TPPkTMCFwaKukG0nzQjEi/3JM6mfaOaixzvpu NKHWezo7/O8oRLcg1u1brUiYpe24P0virvGmwTDZBy2XD7W5kMPkKoMe+Ga8K1rfSMd6 UVbA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.157.18 with SMTP id z18mr1809294bkw.16.1345808220878; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.141 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.10.141 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:37:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1345802881.43379.YahooMailClassic@web111306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1345802881.43379.YahooMailClassic@web111306.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:37:00 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Jeffrey Bouquet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-current , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: pkgng default release schedule (contd...) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:37:03 -0000 On 24 Aug 2012 11:08, "Jeffrey Bouquet" wrote: > > A few more reasons (unless I have not seen some relevant documentation to the contrary) to not mandate pkgng as the default... Why don't you phrase this as "How can one ..." so you sound less negative? > Nowadays, one can save time by installing two ports which officially or unofficially conflict, and have /var/db/pkg entries for both, and even > local workarounds (for instance, moving the duplicate binary elsewhere before the second install) (Perchance removing the line in the Makefile). Currently you can still do this, at least until STAGEDIR. > A failed "make install (register)", one can check the /var/db/pkg/ directory(ies) to double check visually to what extent it did NOT fail. > Similarly for a failed "make deinstall (unregister)"... The error messages are perfectly clear. > pkgdb -F to fixup stale dependencies and resolve dependency information. Unnecessary with pkgng. > A proven method in the portmaster manpage to reinstall all ports. You want to talk to the portmaster author about that. Chris