portmaster not updating ports with new pkg

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>>
>>>> portmaster works for me the same as it always did.  Did you add
>>>> WITH_PKGNG=yes to make.conf?
>>>
>>>
>>> Isn't this done automagically?
>>
>>
>> No.
>>
>>
>>> How do I do this?  with ee as root?
>>
>>
>> That will work, yes.
>
> Now it appears to be churning :)

Hopefully you ran pkg2ng at some point.

> Thank you both Mario & Warren for your help.  I get the warning that
>
> PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository
> configuration file
>
> But a site
>
> http://networkedblogs.com/RurUw
>
> states add the followng:
>
> cp /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf

Those instructions also involve portupgrade, which is not necessary when 
using portmaster.

I just delete the config file, it is not needed unless you want to 
download binary packages anyway.

> I shall try this advice and see if the warning goes away.
>
> On 8.4-RELEASE is it advised to move to pkgng?  It will be EOL'd when?
> I have moved to pkgng on 9.2 machines, but for 8.4 it may not be
> plausible?

There is only one ports tree.  When the old package database goes away 
in August, pkg(8) will be the thing to use on any supported version of 
FreeBSD.