How are ports built now

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 8, 2014 at 6:05:35 PM +0200 olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2014-06-08 17:20, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> --On June 7, 2014 at 11:16:04 PM +0200 olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2014-06-07 22:40, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>>>> --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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you see which port is looping?
>>> Perhaps a port was moved / renamed / removed and portmaster therfore is
>>> looping around
>>>
>>> Sadly I cannot help more since I used all the years tinderbox /
>>> poudriere to build packages.
>>>
>>
>> I've been working on this for two days now, so the parameters have
>> changed a bit.  But here's an example of what prompted my question:
>>
>> This is the result of portmaster -ad
>>
>> ===>>> All >> (18)
>>
>> ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
>>     Upgrade en-freebsd-doc-43251,1 to en-freebsd-doc-44807,1
>>     Install textproc/docproj
>>     Install print/ghostscript9
>>     Upgrade pkgconf-0.9.5 to pkgconf-0.9.6
>>     Upgrade lcms2-2.6_1 to lcms2-2.6_2
>>     Install textproc/docbook-xml
>>     Install textproc/docbook-sgml
>>     Install www/mod_authnz_external22
>>
>> ===>>> Proceed? y/n [y] n
>>
>> This is the result of pkg upgrade -n
>>
>> # pkg upgrade -n
>> Updating repository catalogue
>> Upgrades have been requested for the following 150 packages:
>>
>>     Installing xf86vidmodeproto: 2.3.1
>>     Installing damageproto: 1.2.1
>>     Installing dri2proto: 2.8
>>     Installing pciids: 20140526
>>     Installing randrproto: 1.4.0
>>     Installing perl5: 5.16.3_10
>>     Installing db48: 4.8.30.0
>
> On possible issue between `pkg upgrade' and portmaster with an current
> ports tree is that some of the ports where updated between last wednesday
> and now. E.g pkgconf and the freebsd docs where updated after the last
> package build.

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>
> Is it possible that portmaster builds with NO_PORTDOCS or DOCS=off or
> similar?
>

No.

>
> The port mail/pflogsumm has as only OPTIONS_DEFINE=DOCS, but `pkg
> upgrade' complains about changed options
>>     Reinstalling pflogsumm-1.1.5,1 (options changed)
>
> DOCS on/off could be a possible explanation for all the '(options
> changed)' updates.
>

In general I accept the default options, which is to install docs and 
examples.  There are very few cases where I do not do that.

Here's what portmaster wants to build now:

===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed:
	Upgrade en-freebsd-doc-43251,1 to en-freebsd-doc-44807,1
	Install textproc/docbook-sgml
	Install textproc/docbook-xml
	Install www/mod_authnz_external22
	Re-install docproj-2.0_2
	Install print/ghostscript9

All of these ports fail to install individually.  Unfortunately, I have to 
have ghostscript because I use ImageMagick for our forum.  Otherwise I 
remove it.  It's always been problematic during installs and upgrades.

Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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