pkg wondering...

Jeffrey Bouquet jeffreybouquet at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 28 11:29:48 UTC 2015


No pkg failures , but quirks:
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1.

Backing up pkgng database:
pkg: Ignoring bad configuration entry in /etc/pkg/pkg.conf: "/usr/cache/pkg"
pkg: Ignoring bad configuration entry in /etc/pkg/pkg.conf: "INDEX-10"
pkg: Ignoring bad configuration entry in /etc/pkg/pkg.conf: "freebsd:10:x86:32"

Can pkg be smarter and suggest a proper configuration upon error, test a new one locally before 
suggesting it, or have one firmly tested as working...   hesitant to remove the improper entries 
because then oftentimes, IIRC, what remains causes, or has caused, pkg-* failures with not
solution suggested...

BTW that series of messages obscures  day to day portupgrade updates locally... ten or so
lines to each one of the upgrade by portupgrade ...  leaving the latter not in context.

Something like a sysinstall for pkg (all its files)  parsing each one for errors... would be useful for
new installs as well as existing ones maybe?
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2.
Another feature maybe missng in pkg-install and pkg-upgrade is the "skip  this upgrade? new
dependencies" ; for instance audio/mous is qt4 so I do upgrades with
... | grep -v mous |   ...
an xargs pipe...  However the particular port has to be tested locally of all the list passing
through the pipe to xargs.  Slows it down some.

3. 4.
Less relevant, do not remember them right now...
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A. 
Don't know if this should fit in this email, but every boot 
"libexpect.so.1" not found required by dbus-daemon 
... and another (uuid* ) ...
persists even after reinstall of everything known relevant.

Ignorable here, but...
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