> On 08 Jun 2014, at 21:25, Jim Pazarena <fpo...@paz.bz> wrote: > >> On 2014-06-08 10:55 AM, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Jim Pazarena wrote: >> >> >> No. pkg is just a package manager. It does not replace ports, it just >> handles packages. Like the old package manager, binary packages can be >> downloaded and installed rather than ports, but the choice is yours. > > Ahh.. therein lies the confusion. I have been compiling ports for many > years. However the compilations began nagging about converting pkg2ng. > So I investigated, and set the appropriate "WITH_PKGNG=yes" and ran > pkg2ng. But I never use packages. I always compile from ports. > > So the warning appearing in each and every compile was & is very > misleading. Unless I am *still* confused !!
Not really. If you build from ports that results in a binary package that is installed using the package manager. Old pkg_* tools won't be supported after September 1st, so this directly affects you, even if you build all ports yourself. > _______________________________________________ > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"
