docs/178049: Handbook: PKGNG information misleading

Kimmo Paasiala kpaasial at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 11:30:00 UTC 2013


>Number:         178049
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook: PKGNG information misleading
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 22 11:30:00 UTC 2013
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>Originator:     Kimmo Paasiala
>Release:        FreeBSD 9
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>Description:
The sentence at the beginning of "Using pkgng for Binary Package Management" section leads one to believe that PKGNG tools are not used when building ports(7) the usual way with WITH_PKGNG set.

"While ports-mgmt/portmaster and ports-mgmt/portupgrade can install third-party software from both binary packages and the Ports Collection, pkgng installs only binary packages."

This could be rewritten to:

"While ports-mgmt/portmaster and ports-mgmt/portupgrade can install third-party software from both binary packages and the Ports Collection, pkgng only deals with installing and registering of binary packages into the system. Software installed from the Ports Collection are registered into the system as pkgng packages that can be updated by using binary packages or the Ports Collection".
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