On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 11/5/2013 1:05 PM, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: > > I try to use only portmaster and/or directly with the port using make, > > etc. It seems like the pkg stuff ends up biting me every so often. I > far > > prefer compiling to packages. > > > > Hopefully my question is simple. I would love to make the pkg stuff > > disappear and only use the ports tree directly or with portmaster. > > portmaster is a wrapper around ports. Ports always use a package > management tool behind the scenes. It used to be the > pkg_create/pkg_add/pkg_info tools. Going forward it is pkg (if you have > WITH_PKGNG=yes in make.conf). > > I don't have WITH_PKGNG=yes in make.conf but I might have tried it at the beginning. Is that going to be catastrophic? portmaster does support the old tools still and the new one. > > Did you previously run pkg2ng? Very probable but not sure. > Did you add WITH_PKGNG=yes to your > make.conf? If so you cannot go backwards and there is no reason to do so. > I don't think so but over time I could have. > > > > > Somehow I seem to manage to create these problems on most of my ports: > > > > ===>>> No ORIGIN in /var/db/pkg/gutenprint-base-5.2.8/+CONTENTS > > > > ===>>> No ORIGIN in /var/db/pkg/gutenprint-cups-5.2.8_1/+CONTENTS > > > > I have a list of my installed ports so I am tempted to just eliminate ALL > > the pkg stuff, if possible, and just use ports directly and portmaster. > I > > tried that a few weeks ago and somehow it seems to have come back. This > > seems similar to the forum at > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=42842 I agree with what > > rtwingfield says but I don't see a solution. > > Basically I would love to remove "pkg pkg_" stuff COMPLETELY and just > > compile the port or use portmaster. Is that even an viable option, today? > > > > I am up to date on 9.1 and will upgrade to current 10 shortly after I > have > > my ports back to manual control if it isn't worse. > > > -- > Regards, > Bryan Drewery > > Does anyone have a quick and dirty method to get everything to work with portmaster and preferably compiling and not packages. I would certainly appreciate a link to help clean up and be able to get back to "business as usual. Thanks, ed > Thanks, > > ed > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Bienes Raíces in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico <http://www.ecomania.info> http://www.facebook.com/pages/Inmobiliaria-Bienes-Raices-httpEcoManiainfo/102249989850215?sk=photos_albums _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
