Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:37:03 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: portmaster and pkgng Message-ID: <500D1B3F.6070304@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <500D0EA5.4050900@zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <500D0EA5.4050900@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigDDAF24E714E45319150C23D2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 23/07/2012 09:43, Hartmann, O. wrote: > I'd like to try pkgng with portmaster. I see that "pkg2ng" is involving= > the directory /var/db/pkg, so this implies that there may implications > also for usage with ports-mgmt/portmaster. portmaster is supposed to be= > the tool completely dependend on system's toolsets, isn't it? >=20 > I know that "pkg" is supposed to be more for binary maintainance of the= > system, but I'd like to be "stuck" with compiling my ports. Is there an= > issue with that? As Chris says, making your own repository with poudriere is pretty simple= =2E However, unless you're going to be using pkgng to manage several systems, you might not want even the (fairly small) bother of setting up poudriere at all. Which is fine. So long as you follow these instructions: https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/blob/master/FAQ.md#15 you can then use portmaster(8) pretty much as usual, but with the pkgng packaging format and package database. There remains one significant chunk of portmaster functionality still missing: the ability to install from pre-built packages rather than ports. Depending on how you use portmaster, this may or may not have any day-to-day impact on you. In theory it is possible to mix usage of binary packages from external repositories with locally compiled packages, but at the moment this suffers from exactly the same compatibility problems as doing the equivalent with pkg_tools would. Fixing that is definitely coming, but it's not going to be in release-1.0. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enigDDAF24E714E45319150C23D2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAlANG0gACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzsaQCeM63SFQLzh+4ATHOzVKcOzpJb X+MAnjAEk7cp76YYcWqolpsjSpi1qzDF =I/h0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigDDAF24E714E45319150C23D2--
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