pkg 2 ng conversion

[Michael Gmelin]

> On 08 Jun 2014, at 21:25, Jim Pazarena <fports at paz.bz> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-06-08 10:55 AM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> No.  pkg is just a package manager.  It does not replace ports, it just
>> handles packages.  Like the old package manager, binary packages can be
>> downloaded and installed rather than ports, but the choice is yours.
> 
> Ahh.. therein lies the confusion. I have been compiling ports for many
> years. However the compilations began nagging about converting pkg2ng.
> So I investigated, and set the appropriate "WITH_PKGNG=yes" and ran
> pkg2ng. But I never use packages. I always compile from ports.
> 
> So the warning appearing in each and every compile was & is very
> misleading. Unless I am *still* confused !!

Not really. If you build from ports that results in a binary package that is installed using the package manager. Old pkg_* tools won't be supported after September 1st, so this directly affects you, even if you build all ports yourself.


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