Ports management in 4.11

[Garrett Cooper]

Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I understand 4.11 is dead, but I've still got about 20 odd boxes to take 
> care of for the next few months until we can figure out what breaks in 
> 6.x for us.
> 
> I saw that it's recommended to use the "RELEASE_4_EOL" tag when updating 
> the ports tree to make sure that we have a stable ports tree that should 
> (mostly) build on 4.11.  No problems there, we can deal with freezing 
> everything at the date that tag came out...
> 
> However, we do make extensive use of portupgrade and the version tagged 
> there is known to be buggy.  So I'd like to keep my current version of 
> portupgrade (2.2.6_2.2) installed.  Should this work?
> 
> Running "pkgdb -F" to fix up deps gives me this:
> 
> /usr/ports/INDEX:1765:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
> /usr/ports/INDEX:1766:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
> /usr/ports/INDEX:1767:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
> /usr/ports/INDEX:1768:Port info line must consist of 10 fields.
> 
> I'm guessing something here is not in sync or my cvsup "downgrade" to 
> the EOL tag perhaps didn't remove everything.
> 
> portupgrade also still thinks that tools that came from 
> /usr/port/ports-mgmt still live in that directory rather than in 
> /usr/ports/sysutils (as they do with the EOL tag):
> 
> toolbox[/usr/ports]# pkgdb -F
> cd: can't cd to /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> Stale origin: 'ports-mgmt/pkg_install': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
> [/usr/ports/INDEX.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid 
> argument] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 
> 15969 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX.db: unexpected file type or 
> format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb! 
> (/usr/ports/INDEX.db)]
> database file error
> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 15969 port 
> entries found 
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000......... 
> ..... done]
> Skip this for now? [yes]
> 
> What do I need to get in order to have this all work relatively smoothly 
> until we can get everything upgraded to 6.x?
> 
> Sadly(?), most of the port management tools have "just worked" for me, 
> so I've never really gone looking under the hood that much.
> 
> Any advice is appreciated...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles

Newer version of portupgrade / pkgdb should have fixed this IIRC. Look 
into the archives a few days and you'll find the thread.

-Garrett