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Which is the best way of install something here, in your thoughts? If you want, you can explain why do you think what you think. You can like pkg You can like https://www.freshports.org/ Or simply don't have one of your preference and use both or none. Feel free of expound your thoughts and...

I was doing portmaster -a . When it finished, the output it's saved in "/tmp/portmasterfail.txt" I won't post the whole command because it's so huge that it has more than 8000 characters. So you should have an idea of how big it's. Another thing, it's I don't know how to write the directory of...

pkg upgrade will reinstall unlocked ports as packages, and then presumably those packages can be managed (updated) through pkg. However, after upgrading all but a couple of ports to packages, portmaster dies during portmaster -aR. I also get the impression that dependency ports aren't converted...

Hello everyone, I'm updating some programs through portmaster and it's showing me the following error message: ===>>> Returning to update check of installed ports make: "/usr/ports/devel/py27-setuptools/Makefile" line 29: Malformed conditional (${PYTHON_VERSION} != ${PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION})...

Hey, I just finished install FreeBSD 11 on external harddisk, and I want to ask about kernel, should I rebuild kernel after installation? I was building kernel , and I cancel it after a hour because it was take very long time and my laptop got very hot on for it , I follow This instructions to...

Hello! I always installed the software from the ports through the portmaster. But on one machine software was put in a classical way - through ports (make deinstall, make reinstall clean) (without a portmaster). Can I now install the portmaster on this machine and update it with it? This is a...

This is not a burning issue, but should I report this somewhere, and if so, what's the most effective method, please? I was updating the ports on this box to fix the rsync vulnerability, and this is what I have left that I can't "fix": portmaster -L ... ===>>> smartmontools-6.6 ===>>> New...

For those who could look for the correct command to replace, for example, old unison-nox with new unified port with nox11 flavor, I used: portmaster -o net/unison@nox11 unison-2.48.4_2 and it worked! Thanks to portmaster developpers!

Are pkg and portmaster equivalent? Is it better to use pkg or portmaster? To me they should be equivalent, and both should maintain the same version of software installed on the system, however I noticed inconsistencies. I have been playing around with a test system (FreeBSD 11) and I've...

Hello folks, I build net-mgmt/unifi5 from time to time. Unifi is not available as a pkg but most all of the dependancies are. in the past I used to just use ports-mgmt/portmaster like this (if my notes can be trusted: portmaster --update-if-newer --packages-build /usr/ports/net-mgmt/unifi5/...

Hi, Couple of questions about portmaster. Given that the documentation and some tools related to the "ports" system regard programs installed from binary package repository as "ports", does that mean: 1. We can use tools like portmaster to manage everything, regardless of the way it was...

Hi gang! Editorial: I've been using ports-mgmt/portmaster for a long time already and I figured it could use a little bit of extra love and attention ;) Also because there is a lot which Portmaster can do, so I'm hoping that briefly showcasing some of those features might be helpful for some...

I greatly dread the inevitiable "Please rebuild all installed 3rd party software" message from freebsd-update and I'm convinced there are ways to reduce the pain. I seek advice. - 1st: It seems to me that the primary intent for the universal rebuild is to remove all previous version library...

Setting: FreeBSD 11.0 RELEASE I have binary packages installed using pkg. Works great and fine in itself. I have installed from source some ports as the options used in the binary version was not what I needed. Works great and fine in itself. Mixing both as such works as advertised, but I'm...

Is it still bad practice to update installed ports with Portmaster -a or -af? In this 15799 user "phoenix" says, that Is this information still valid? The FreeBSD handbook recommends just to use: portmaster -a and if that fails, then: portmaster -af

I am looking to switch from using portmaster management to pkg/poudriere for management. I already have poudriere setup on an outside system and I am using it for some machines which I built using the poudriere setup from the beginning. I would like to begin using the poudriere/pkg setup for...

Hi all, I'd like to follow the quarterly package repository (because I value stability and reliability over new features), but I need to have a few packages compiled with custom options, and this results in a problem: Ports does not have a quarterly release, only a "rolling release" of sorts...

Hi. I have upgraded host from 10.1 to 10.3. After that i coudn't start ezjail. I edited fstab.jail_name to /usr/jails/basejail /usr/jails/jail_name/basejail nullfs ro 0 0 After that it started. I stoped it. Updated jail with ezjail-admin update -U -s 10.1-RELEASE mergemaster -U -D...

I'm getting the following error messages when I try to build and install the dar program from ports using portmaster and make: Updating database digests format: 100% Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 packages in the...

Inside portmaster.rc file I have following option: $ cat /usr/local/etc/portmaster.rc ... PM_PACKAGES_BUILD=pmp_build ... But every time I build something every build dependency is not fetched by pkg but is being built from sources. That usually takes long time especially when there are llvm37...