I think you're very confused about what pkgng is for. At this time, ports
are STILL the recommended way to install things and keep them up to date.
Pkgng is the first step required for us to get a better package management
system so we can shift the community towards primarily using packages.
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 05:05:57 -0500, Matt Burke <mattbli...@icritical.com>
wrote:
1. How do I get pkg to use packages built against 9.1-RC1? VirtualBox is
playing up (no ethernet, unkillable crashes, etc) and I suspect it's the
kernel module...
I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you have a 9.1-RC1 server and you're
using a public pkgng repository? Which is probably built against 9.0?
2. Is there a list of ports like nvidia-driver, nspluginwrapper,
linux-f10-flashplugin, sampleicc (dependency of libreoffice!) which
aren't
in pkgng?
Everything can be built into the pkgng format except a few ports that need
workarounds. There's a list on the wiki.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
Go to the bottom "Known Failures" section.
2a. How do I install libreoffice when a dependency isn't in pkgng?
You run your own poudriere box and setup your own private pkgng repository
at this time and build your packages against whatever versions of
Perl/Python/PHP/MySQL/etc that you prefer with whichever extra make.conf
settings and port options you prefer. My own pkgng repository has
libreoffice with no issues.
3. How do I force pkg to install/upgrade a single package, regardless of
dependencies being out of date?
You should never try to do this anyway; you'll end up with packages built
against the wrong versions of libraries.
4. How do I get poudiere to build against a local src/obj tree, or a zfs
snapshot of a pre-built jail, instead of 9.0-RELEASE?
The poudriere man page has all the instructions needed to create jails of
any release version to be used for building packages.
5. How do I get poudiere to build against the packages a pkgng client
will
use instead of building everything for itself? It might help to reduce
the
discrepancy between the 30 secs it takes to rebuild sysutils/conky from
ports on my desktop, and the >1hour it takes poudiere on a hefty server
to
download+build X and all its dependencies
You don't do it this way. You build everything on your poudriere server
and push all of your packages to the client. You do this every single
time. If you decide you want a new package on your client, you build it on
your poudriere server and have your client request it. If you're using
poudriere/pkgng, your clients should NEVER be compiling ports or
installing packages outside of what your poudriere server is providing.
Poudriere is giving you a "cleanroom" environment where it can guarantee
that all the packages and their required packages/libraries are sane.
6. Is pkgng really replacing base when poudiere requires ZFS? How will
ports work if pkg_* are gone? Seriously, shouldn't ports at least be able
to work with pkgng, and the default FreeBSD install be to a ZFS root
before
people are stuffed with the "wrong" choices (UFS) they made?
Pkgng doesn't require ZFS -- poudriere does. Your clients should never
have poudriere.
7. How do I configure pkg to use packages from a certain historical
release? I need my servers to be identical software-wise regardless of
when
I install them. In other words, I DON'T want the latest versions.
Make sure your poudriere server is using the ports tree snapshot you
desire.
8. Is there a pkgng equivalent of 'ls -lt /var/db/pkg' without firing up
sqlite?
Are you looking for the date column (not sure why that's useful as it can
change due to many things)? Doesn't "pkg info -a" suffice?
9. Why didn't pkg upgrade tell me it replaced my custom-built packages?
I'd
have liked for it to not break stuff when /var/db/ports/*/options
differed
from the options I can see pkgng keeps in its metadata...
Your poudriere server can use you preferred options when it builds
packages. Check the man page.
Long story short: poudriere is a tool for you to build your OWN private
package repositories (which is really handy!). Pkgng is just the first
step towards a large goal of greatly improving the enduser experience with
FreeBSD. I don't believe pkgng is default on any release yet, so you
shouldn't be using public pkgng repositories for anything but testing. You
should either be running your own poudriere server or you should just be
using the new pkgng format with ports.
I'm sure someone will chime in with more details and possibly corrections
if I've missed something.
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