While fixing another issue, I accidentally broke the pkgtools slightly (especially pkg_info), resulting in empty output when redirected :(
so the parts of bsd.port.mk that depend on that (dependency handling) might break in spectacular ways. (sorry for not testing, but I definitely dit NOT expect this to break) I'm not sure both problems made it out to a snapshot, they are now fully fixed, but if you're experiencing really bad issues working with the ports tree, update from src. checkout src/usr.sbin/{Makefile.inc,pkg_add} do a 'make install NOMAN='