How are ports built now

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 7, 2014 at 10:22:41 PM +0200 "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" 
<freebsd at skysmurf.nl> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> Recently I upgraded two servers to 8.4 and implemented the pkgng system.
> [snip]
>> Is portmaster not the appropriate method for updating ports with pkgng?
>
> It depends whether you're talking about *building* packages from the ports
> tree or installing binary packages.
>
> As for building from ports, Portmaster doesn't care whether you're using
> the new PNGNG or the old pkg_* tools.
>

Thanks.  That's good to know.

>> Now, when I run portmaster -ad, it seems to keep reinstalling the same
>> ports over and over again.
>
> That's strange. Perhaps PKGNG hasn't been initialised properly on your
> system(s), that's all I can think of at the moment. Did you use pkg2ng?
>

I'm pretty sure I did, but I ran it again.  I noticed several errors which 
I will have to investigate.

Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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