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Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 18:48:11 -0600 (MDT)
From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Jim Pazarena <fports@paz.bz>
Subject: Re: pkg 2 ng conversion
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Jim Pazarena wrote:

> On 2014-06-08 10:55 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> No.  pkg is just a package manager.  It does not replace ports, it just
>> handles packages.  Like the old package manager, binary packages can be
>> downloaded and installed rather than ports, but the choice is yours.
>
> Ahh.. therein lies the confusion. I have been compiling ports for many
> years. However the compilations began nagging about converting pkg2ng.
> So I investigated, and set the appropriate "WITH_PKGNG=yes" and ran
> pkg2ng. But I never use packages. I always compile from ports.
>
> So the warning appearing in each and every compile was & is very
> misleading. Unless I am *still* confused !!

The package database tracks what is installed, whether it was built from 
a port or downloaded as a binary package.  The old package database is 
going away, and it's time to switch.  That's what pkg2ng does, reads the 
old installed packages database and writes the new format.