Repair pkgng

Jakob Breivik Grimstveit jakob at grimstveit.no
Wed Apr 2 12:27:37 UTC 2014


Hi,

After having done some half-hearted pkgng conversions back in the fbsd 9.x
days I'm now on fbsd 10.

I use `portmaster -a -v -d --delete-packages` to upgrade packages

Trying to convert to new pkg format fails:

# pkg2ng
Converting packages from /var/db/pkg
[...]
Converting libyaml-0.1.6...
pkg: Unable to open plist file: /var/db/pkg/libyaml-0.1.6/+CONTENTS
Skipping invalid package: /var/db/pkg/libyaml-0.1.6
Converting gcc-ecj-4.5...
pkg: Unable to open plist file: /var/db/pkg/gcc-ecj-4.5/+CONTENTS
Skipping invalid package: /var/db/pkg/gcc-ecj-4.5
Converting cmake-modules-2.8.10.2...
pkg: Unable to open plist file: /var/db/pkg/cmake-modules-2.8.10.2/+CONTENTS
Skipping invalid package: /var/db/pkg/cmake-modules-2.8.10.2
[...]
Analysing shared libraries, this will take a while... done

These lines I get for every installed package (I assume).

/etc/make.conf contains WITH_PKGNG=YES

/var/db/pkg only contains these files:

$ find /var/db/pkg
[...]
/var/db/pkg/libyaml-0.1.6
/var/db/pkg/libyaml-0.1.6/distfiles
/var/db/pkg/gcc-ecj-4.5
/var/db/pkg/gcc-ecj-4.5/distfiles
/var/db/pkg/cmake-modules-2.8.10.2
/var/db/pkg/cmake-modules-2.8.10.2/distfiles
[...]

portmaster -l and /contents of /var/db/pkg are also different (not very
strange, I assume):

$ portmaster -l | wc -l && find /var/db/pkg -type d -maxdepth 1|wc -l
     206
     267


How do I get myself safely over to using just pkgng, as I should on fbsd10?


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