On 23 Jul 2012 09:44, "Hartmann, O." <ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hello. > > I'd like to try pkgng with portmaster. I see that "pkg2ng" is involving > the directory /var/db/pkg, so this implies that there may implications > also for usage with ports-mgmt/portmaster. portmaster is supposed to be > the tool completely dependend on system's toolsets, isn't it? > > I know that "pkg" is supposed to be more for binary maintainance of the > system, but I'd like to be "stuck" with compiling my ports. Is there an > issue with that? > > Thanks inadvance and sorry for the (naive) noise.
Of course you can stay with compiling your ports directly, but I think you'll be so amazed with how easy it is to make binary package sets yourself and use them that you'll use them instead :). You still have all the advantages of compiling from source. http://blog.etoilebsd.net/post/Home_made_pkgng_repo Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
