ports/181592: pkg2ng should check/add WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf
Gary Aitken
garya at dreamchaser.org
Tue Aug 27 21:40:01 UTC 2013
>Number: 181592
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: pkg2ng should check/add WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 27 21:40:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gary Aitken
>Release: 9.1 RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD breakaway.dreamchaser.org 9.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sat Jul 27 01:14:23 UTC 2013 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
pkg2ng converts the package database, in a non-reversible manner, to the new format. If running a release earlier than 10, /etc/make.conf requires the line
WITH_PKGNG=yes
for port builds to work.
It would be helpful if pkg2ng automagically updated /etc/make.conf to contain this line if it is not already there; it will save a lot of complaints / questions when people upgrade.
If one upgrades using pkg2ng and then attempts to build a port, the build will start to work correctly and then fail when attempting to install with a message about the package database being corrupted. The only clue to the fact that the problem is the missing entry in /etc/make.conf is that the error messages are from pkg_install, which is the old pkg environment.
>How-To-Repeat:
# pkg2ng
# cd /usr/ports
# portmaster foo/bar
>Fix:
Manually add
WITH_PKGNG=yes
to /etc/make.conf
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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