Paul Schmehl wrote: > Recently I upgraded two servers to 8.4 and implemented the pkgng system. [snip] > Is portmaster not the appropriate method for updating ports with pkgng?
It depends whether you're talking about *building* packages from the ports tree or installing binary packages. As for building from ports, Portmaster doesn't care whether you're using the new PNGNG or the old pkg_* tools. > Now, when I run portmaster -ad, it seems to keep reinstalling the same > ports over and over again. That's strange. Perhaps PKGNG hasn't been initialised properly on your system(s), that's all I can think of at the moment. Did you use pkg2ng? > Are we forced to now go to binary packages only? No, of course not. However, it might be that Portmaster cannot handle *installing* binary packages in the new format. I'm not sure because I let Portmaster build PKGNG-style binary packages and use PKGNG to install those on other jails/systems, but I seem to recall something along the lines of Portmaster not yet being able to use PKGNG-style binary package repositories. I might be way off here, though. AvW -- I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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