From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 09:46:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E326970A for ; Sun, 25 May 2014 09:46:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.grem.de (outcast.grem.de [213.239.217.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 474792FCF for ; Sun, 25 May 2014 09:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 89052 invoked by uid 89); 25 May 2014 09:46:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bsd64.grem.de) (mg@grem.de@88.217.180.104) by mail.grem.de with ESMTPA; 25 May 2014 09:46:36 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 11:46:33 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: Net-SNMP conflict Message-ID: <20140525114633.34580c06@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <537B9B14.5060001@FreeBSD.org> References: <537B0FCB.7020608@altadena.net> <2d991d03fb98e2304c9abf70bcd14f78@mail.feld.me> <537B613A.7010604@wintek.com> <537B796A.7060103@freebsd.org> <537B9215.7050608@wintek.com> <537B9B14.5060001@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.2 (GTK+ 2.24.18; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA512; boundary="Sig_/vK6okVNqNcFSCaPy_vfv.53"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: Richard Kuhns , "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 09:46:39 -0000 --Sig_/vK6okVNqNcFSCaPy_vfv.53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 20 May 2014 19:12:36 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 20/05/2014 18:34, Richard Kuhns wrote: > > So doesn't that mean that the net-snmp port is doing things wrong? > > If pkg *isn't* installed it's pretty safe to say that net-snmpd is > > not going to be able to use pkg(8) to extract the the list of > > installed packages even after listing it as a dependency & > > therefore installing it, right? > >=20 > > Just trying to get clear on what's going on... >=20 > Yes. net-snmpd assumes you're using pkg(8). If you're going to stick > with old pkg_tools, then you're also going to have to stick with old > net-snmpd. >=20 > Of you could just, you know, step into the modern age, become one with > the zeitgeist and switch to pkgng. Don't dither too long though -- > you've only got until September before the question becomes academic, > as that's when pkg_tools is being EoL'd. >=20 September is a pretty tough deadline to meet for larger installations, it's, you know, a lot of work. Ports should actually function with the old pkg_tools until then - otherwise why bother setting a deadline at all. As of today, net-snmpd should be considered BROKEN. --=20 Michael Gmelin --Sig_/vK6okVNqNcFSCaPy_vfv.53 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (FreeBSD) iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJTgbv8XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFODQyNDA4MjEyRDI3NjdBRTI5RUZDQTQ2 ODk3RjhDMTZCRkFGRjlGAAoJEGiX+MFr+v+fLD8H/j1PmsZgm5khrgP+kOPfcoqI 3Nlvre7UAzTtgug2tFSMKcmTkW/mwzST7RcW/AlbWgx16478XWtN4Fyy7DlvlE1B z7xp8piJzuolMI3XaYCFxqof9i3DZ/MTIyVL+xKhAmxhoqx+NovNAtooyjNYvvCQ qjMSVcozpFJ2n3niEyP3Mg89tdqss3+vRO1BMAToGXloKE3SEQd4fCX4m0cxFxPY aVg/hn2SkZcZhwBBG9Ip49ixz8vVNyQU25zSVj1m/0d0LsKqF/Z8bzZ+KKvc+GVC 6j0Bg5A0UhvLQEsxwq2JSlQCYo/EUsP/lpzZAXx7PL1Fh8veFG4Sybx7+Oxl4Vg= =BDW3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/vK6okVNqNcFSCaPy_vfv.53--