Updating from 9.2 to 10.0-BETA3 Issues..

[Carl Johnson]

Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:

> On 14/11/2013 23:04, Carl Johnson wrote:
>> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
>> 
>>> On 11/14/13 16:54, Carl Johnson wrote:
>>>> Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
>>>>> Both portmaster and portupgrade are compatible with pkg(8), and you can
>>>>> certainly carry on using them in pretty much the same way as you always
>>>>> did.  There is a missing bit of functionality with portmaster in that it
>>>>> won't itself install from pkgs on a pkgngized system.  Patches welcome!
>>>>
>>>> What is the recommended process for handling portmaster on a new system?
>>>> I am planning on upgrading a 9.2 system, but  I was planning to remove
>>>> all ports first, then install pkg and portmaster to install the
>>>> remaining packages.  Is there some required order to handle this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.  Install pkg first, then portmater, then anything else you may
>>> desire.  Note that you'll need 'WITH_PKGNG=YES' in /etc/make.conf if you
>>> on FreeBSD 9.x (or below) and you are goingto build your own packages
>>> rather than using the binary packages from pkg.freebsd.org.
>> 
>> Thanks for the reply, but that is still not clear.  You said above that
>> portmaster "won't itself install from pkgs", so I am not sure what that
>> means.  Does that mean that using pkg to install portmaster will work
>> properly?  I am planning to wait for the release, so hopefully the
>> release notes will have good install/upgrade instructions.
>
> It means the -P or -PP options to portmaster don't do what you expect.

Thanks, that clears it up.  I just remembered that portmaster is a shell
script, so that isn't much of a restriction.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org