pkgng woes

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

--- On Fri, 11/9/12, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

> From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: pkgng woes
> To: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org, zaphod at berentweb.com
> Date: Friday, November 9, 2012, 5:22 AM
>     @anton
>     portmaster --check-depends does not work
> for me.  Shows everything as fine
>     but when I specifically target a port: *#
> portmaster -i graphics/gimp* for
>     example, I get a long list of ports to be
> installed - meaning not all of the
>     existing ports have been registered
> correctly, hence --check depends will
>     not work. Once I re-install all of the
> "missing depends" and run the same
>     command (*# portmaster -i graphics/gimp*)
> then there are no problems nor
>     list of missing depends.
> 
> Well... if it's any consolation, my convertion
> to pkgng wasn't easy either. In fact, I'n not
> sure I'm all there yet.
> 
> My problem was due to using an outdated portmaster pkgng
> patch.
> Note: this is no longer an issue.
> Anyway, I ended up with a corrupted pkg database.
> I had to update many ports manually.
> Now that the pkg database is fully under pngng
> control (I'm just a user and don't follow
> the technical details, hence my using of non-technical
> language) I think portmaster can work with it.
> For example portmaster --check-port-dbdir seems
> to give correct results.
> 
> Anyway, I think the idea is to remove a lot
> of functionality from portmaster and give
> it to pkgng. For example checking for missing
> dependencies, or shared libs. However, I'm used
> to working with ports only, never with packages.
> I still don't understand if pkgng is the tool
> for me or not. People keep talking of poudriere,
> but again I'm not sure if some of the portmaster
> functionality is supposed to be taken over
> by pourdriere or not.
> 
> Anton
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FWIW, 
The wiki (FreeBSDPackageBuildingComparison) says poudriere requires
ZSH.  I'd like to write more on this topic but am out of time.

J. Bouquet