pkgng woes

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Fri Nov 9 12:26:08 UTC 2012


	> 2. I am used to portmaster and I accept that portupgrade is "more ready" to
	> be used with pkgng than portmaster. However, portmaster has the
	> "--check-depends" option which I would normally use to correct problem #1,
	> alas I see no similar function in portupgrade or pkg. The "portupgrade -Ffu"
	> and "pkg check" commands don't do the trick either.
	I have not tried portmaster with pkgdb yet but I understand recent 
	versions of it support
	pkgng.  Have you looked into that?

portmaster --check-depends does work for me with pkgng
on ia64 and sparc64 -current.

Anton


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