From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 01:56:43 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 84680232 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x235.google.com (mail-qc0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FC391EE7 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id i17so6092296qcy.26 for ; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:56:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=yYl8sznRekJ8D+cMznL4BbWBbfyHCRAIKyFbYsGYBG8=; b=VibVdoMyJjKb/CihXMIbceet9VpNQ2zG3Ra1zKmMQLwFtzco4KnkSNcbJzShh2jx+3 KUmNxYaGbTaFedTs4+pINVCoxe4eMnLQpu94V4y5v2l4QpZXgdk/tu4QMDx7cHgFuO/h bjsH6rr7TqVgp4zXiBjIoj9ICybBMIieR+9hOdCjvfwGY1fYwsvzgnn3E9+zzinn3j03 YejsjXMzA8RkelN6JDg8xKn4UlkLxBDf0I/M130PE2WZcwn1JygeJ0C+9+m9Zx5KgGUn rmZxlF1ucPNPJ66Zjamh3twNA0++ekmkDdqRepiT/br6O054hpm46qUOYLyege8BkVgd EWAg== X-Received: by 10.224.134.202 with SMTP id k10mr51970734qat.19.1409623002423; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from keyhole.local (173-26-254-198.client.mchsi.com. [173.26.254.198]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id p5sm6436031qah.3.2014.09.01.18.56.41 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:56:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Burns To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:56:39 -0500 Message-ID: User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (OpenBSD/5.6; KDE/4.13.3; i386; ; ) In-Reply-To: <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:56:43 -0000 On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 3:51:31 AM Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > >> And for the portsnap users? > > > > In short, this change doesn't directly effect portsnap users. > > Sure about that? > > > Portsnap is a tool that used to obtain a copy of the ports tree. > > try this: > > portsnap fetch update && cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make install > > If you *haven't* install pkg first... > > > Portsnap is only one way, another way to get a copy of the ports tree is > > by > > using subversion and checking it out by using the svn command. > > Not much good if you haven't installed svn already... > > > pkg(8) is a package management tool, and to make use of most packages > > having a copy of the ports tree is not required. > > Correct, take a 9.2 install disk, install it, portsnap and then install > pkg on it... Oh wait, you can't.. pkg_install is broken, and 9.2 > install disks don't have pkg in the BaseOS.... Why and how would someone delete a file off a running 9.2 system? New releases already use pkg. The first time you attempt to use pkg on a pkg-enabled release, it prompts you to download ports-mgmt/pkg and manually installs it. It's called "bootstrapping" This is not an issue here. Try it for yourself. -- Chuck Burns Audemus Jura Nostra Defendere