portmaster refuses to use pkgng with local packages

[Freddie Cash]

On Oct 27, 2013 8:59 AM, "Axel Rau" <Axel.Rau at chaos1.de> wrote:
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> Am 27.10.2013 um 16:41 schrieb Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com>:
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> > On Oct 27, 2013 8:35 AM, "Axel Rau" <Axel.Rau at chaos1.de> wrote:
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> >> Am 27.10.2013 um 16:23 schrieb Adam McDougall <mcdouga9 at egr.msu.edu>:
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> >>> Perhaps 'pkg add' is what you want?
> >> No, this *installs* a new package.
> >> I'm using
> >>        postmaster -a
> >> to *update* everything in a jail.
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> > If you want to do everything using only binary packages, then you can
stop
> > using portmaster. The pkg tool does it all.
> >
> > pkg update
> > pkg upgrade
> >
> > Those two commands do what "postmaster -a -PP" does.
> Sure, but I want the flexibility of individually configuring the ports,
which is done on my build jail.

Then you want to convert your build jail setup to use ports-mgmt/poudriere.
That gives you the best of all worlds: individually configure and tweak
each port, build binary packages in bulk, use pkg to install/upgrade on
destination machines.

BSDNow video podcast #2 even includes a nice tutorial and overview of how
it works.