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Date:      Sun, 08 Jun 2014 12:24:40 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How are ports built now
Message-ID:  <E0634B5D89351B7DFED90BF5@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local>
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--On June 8, 2014 at 7:17:01 PM +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, but no, you misunderstand.  I just upgraded to servers to 8.4 and
>> decided to adopt the new pkgng system at the same time.  Any time I
>> upgrade the OS, I always rebuild all ports.  I've been using portmaster
>> -ad to do that for a while now.
>
> Ah, ok. Sorry for the confusion.
> I'm still using portupgrade, and haven't used portmaster, so I have
> nothing to add about that.
>
>> One one of the servers I seem to be in some sort of loop.  Every time I
>> run portmaster -ad the same ports come up for install/upgrade.  Yet when
>> portmaster completes it says the ports were successfully installed.  Run
>> portmaster -ad again, the same list pops up.
>>
>
> All I can say is follow this mailing list closely. There seems to be a
> lot of problems with the ports tree lately, it has made me lose some
> confidence in the ports tree. Now I only update when I absolutely have
> to.
>

Me too.  Between staging and the change to pkgng, everything is upside 
down.  It seems FreeBSD is headed toward the dependency hell of Linux 
instead of the smooth running ports system we once had.

Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions
are my own and not those of my employer.
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