Legacy system

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Peter Sprokkelenburg <
peters at connections.ca> wrote:

> I have a system that we only use internally and it some how got *missed*
> on getting upgrade to pkg from pkg_
>
> Attempting to upgrade now give an error -
>
> /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg]# make
> You are about to convert your system to pkg while you have ports/packages
> installed with the old pkg_install tools.
>
> To switch to pkg:
>     1) Install ports-mgmt/pkg
>     2) Convert your package database by running pkg2ng
>
> *** [pre-everything] Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg.
>
>
Hi,

Can you follow the steps (in order) here:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html#pkgng-initial-setup

and report anything that is unclear in that doc, so we can clean it up?

--
Craig