Re: portmaster and pkgng

On 07/23/12 11:07, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2012 09:44, "Hartmann, O." <ohartman_at_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

Hello Chris.

I need to go step by step. I installed ports-mgmt/pkg and did a pkg2ng
and watched the folder /var/db/pkg has been backuped and then changed
towards the pkgng usage.

portmaster now is not recognizing anymore the format of the /var/db/pkg
folder - for those considered the knowledged no surprise, for me simply
the indication that portmaster usage isn't usable as usual.

Well, if I understand it right, pkg is considered to be for binary
packages and does not make portmaster obsolete, if I'm inclined
compiling my ports myself, am I right?

Well, I thought I read in here that pkg has now a much more
sophisticated tracking of dependencies - usage of SQLite implies, that
there is now a great opportunity of doing well in tracking problems and
versioning (I might be wrong).

I tried to follow the chat on the list about pkgng, but for the rush I
didn't figured out whether portmaster is considered obsolete - I saw
patches for portupgrade flushing in, so my logic has been falsified by
that implicitely ...

Thanks for the link, I'll see what it about, sounds promising ...

Regards,
Oliver


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