I view, rightly-or-wrongly, the mandatory usage of pkgng VS /var/db/pkg/portname-number, as somewhat of a showstopper, at least without more assurances... I interact daily with /var/db/pkg as follows...
using the shells' tab-completion of /var/db/pkg/ to more efficiently pkg_create, pkg_delete portmaster -d -B -P -i -g /var/db/pkg/ /var/db/pkg/ /var/db/pkg/ /var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg/ /var/db/pkg... && yell || yell; #zsh# no space on the machine for pkgng #zsh# in /var/db/pkg # does not pkg_complete without the pwd #zsh# pkg_delete -f portname-number && pkg_add /mnt/portmaster-download/portname-number... #var/db/pkg# ls -lac | grep py26 # upgrading to py27 #var/db/pkg# ls -lac | grep diff # what tools can I use make build-depends-list ls -lac /var/db/pkg/this ls -lac /var/db/pkg/that #... which port is less-recently upgraded that might fix this port... /usr/ports/devel/gettext cp -iv /var/db/pkg/gett[tab]/+REQUIRED_BY . # reference for prior-to rebuild, esp., if UPDATING ... ... # to defer or not the upgrade of a port, Any lesser-easily equivalent to these using pkgng, if it involves actually writing down the name-number (lacking tab completion), would incur a serious time cost AFAIK, not to mention RSI. ... Also, 'fails to register' in pkgng... with /var/db/pkg, at least one can "make -k install" ( I should elaborate this concern more, but where would the "failed to register" exist? Files would be installed but ... pkgng would put a file in /work/ detailing its failure to register the port and why?? I rightly-or-wrongly picture pkgng sort of as a front-end to /var/db/pkg/, then removal of the latter. Unless clear equivalents using pkgng to the CLI and scenarios I've posted above are elucidated, put in a flowchart somewhere (or the wiki...)... it *sort of* forces the use of packages rather than building from ports ?? Or I am just inexperienced... Thanks J. Bouquet _______________________________________________ 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"
