Migrating from ports to pkg

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Wed Dec 16 01:02:04 UTC 2015



On 12/15/15 17:52, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using "make" to install ports and "portsnap/portmaster" to
> update my system.  But I'm over it now.
>
> I'm running 10.1-RELEASE and have very few ports installed.
>
> Is the migration from make/portsnap/portmaster -> pkg as simple as:
>
> pkg delete portmaster
> rm -rf /usr/ports
> pkg update
> pkg upgrade

pkg upgrade -f

This will "reinstall and upgrade all packages on the system.

Been there done that

>
> ?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Chris
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