Please help with this conundrum!

[Andrew Berg]

On 2015.01.18 06:32, Eric Dynamic wrote:
> Vanilla fresh install of FreeBSD 10.1.

> ===>   php56-5.6.4 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - not found
> ===>    Verifying install for /usr/local/sbin/pkg in 
> /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
> You are about to convert your system to pkg while you have ports/packages
> installed with the old pkg_install tools.

One of these is untrue (most likely the former). Did you copy over your old
package database or something? FreeBSD 10 does not have the old pkg_* tools and
cannot deal with old-style packages at all, aside from pkg2ng, which will
convert the old package system into the new one.