pkgng seems to be out of date?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:56:46AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> On 25 June 2013 11:40, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:36:07AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> >> On 25 June 2013 11:31, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:36:14AM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> >> >> ping?
> >> >>
> >> >> On 22 June 2013 18:46, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> >> >> > $ pwd
> >> >> > /usr/ports/textproc/xml2rfc
> >> >> > $ make build-depends-list
> >> >> > /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
> >> >> > $ make run-depends-list
> >> >> > /usr/ports/lang/tcl86
> >> >> > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk86
> >> >> >
> >> >> > But...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > $ pkg query '%n: %do' xml2rfc
> >> >> > xml2rfc: textproc/expat2
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11-fonts/fontconfig
> >> >> > xml2rfc: print/freetype2
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/kbproto
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/libX11
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/libXau
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/libXdmcp
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11-fonts/libXft
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/libXrender
> >> >> > xml2rfc: devel/libpthread-stubs
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/libxcb
> >> >> > xml2rfc: devel/pkgconf
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/renderproto
> >> >> > xml2rfc: lang/tcl-modules
> >> >> > xml2rfc: lang/tcl85
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11-toolkits/tk85
> >> >> > xml2rfc: x11/xproto
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > a) Why so many more dependencies, and...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > b) Why different versions of tcl/tk?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > And ... how do I fix it?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > BTW, I use portmaster to maintain my installed ports...
> >> >
> >> > That is how the ports tree works for eons, and that can't be fixed until we can
> >> > totally get rid if pkg_install (to many corner egdes) pkg_install to work
> >> > properly needs to track fully direct and indirect dependencies, pkg does not,
> >> > but because the ports tree still need to be compatible with pkg_install and
> >> > lots of people are still using all habits from the pkg_install time, it is very
> >> > hard to remove this right now.)
> >> >
> >> > But yes for sure this "feature" will get removed :))
> >>
> >> So are you saying that pkg includes indirect dependencies, while ports do not?
> >>
> > Yes
> >> But that doesn't explain why pkg says tcl85 and ports says tcl86....
> >
> > That is probably a bug of run-depends not discovering you have tcl85 installed
> > so getting to the default tcl for its dependency which is tcl86.
> 
> I actually have both installed, so I think the bug is in pkg. I'd like
> to remove ports I don't need but pkg won't let me remove tcl85, which
> I think I don't really need...

I think is it a bug in portmaster and/or not having fully follow 20130206 of UPDATING.

pkg only registers dependencies it is being told to register by the ports
tree/portmaster.
> 
> How can I force pkg to rebuild its dependencies? Is it even possible?

portmaster -af should do it probably (I'm not a portmaster user)
> 
> Is there any way for pkg to check the integrity of its database?
> 

pkg check -d will do, but imho will find nothing.

regards,
Bapt
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