Portmaster -g no longer builds packages for dependencies?

Kamil Szczesny k.s.mail at gmx.net
Fri Jun 6 07:16:56 UTC 2014


On 05/06/2014 17:04, Dave Mischler wrote:
> I built a clean jail yesterday, portsnapped a new ports tree (i.e. fetch
> and extract) and built portmaster.  Then I did
> "portmaster -dgGH x11/xorg".  It seemed to build Xorg properly, but
> there were no packages built for any of the many dependencies.  I tried
> an older portmaster version that used to work and it seemed to have the
> same problem.  Is this difficulty due to changes in the ports tree that
> broke dependent package building?  Any suggestions?  I have avoided
> poudriere so far because I like having no ports tree except in the jail.
>
>

Given the case you use portmaster + pkgng, than package building is not 
supported yet. portmaster prints this into the console:

===>>> Package installation support cannot be used with pkgng yet,
        it will be disabled




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