pkgng woes
Bryan Drewery
bryan at shatow.net
Fri Nov 9 18:51:00 UTC 2012
On 11/9/2012 12:42 PM, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
>
>
> --- 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 My problem was due to using an outdated portmaster pkgng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.
ZFS*
It uses base /bin/sh, not zsh.
>
> J. Bouquet
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