Bug 178049

Summary:	[handbook] PKGNG information misleading
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	carlavilla
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Kimmo Paasiala 2013-04-22 12:30:00 UTC

The sentence at the beginning of "Using pkgng for Binary Package Management" section leads one to believe that PKGNG tools are not used when building ports(7) the usual way with WITH_PKGNG set.

"While ports-mgmt/portmaster and ports-mgmt/portupgrade can install third-party software from both binary packages and the Ports Collection, pkgng installs only binary packages."

This could be rewritten to:

"While ports-mgmt/portmaster and ports-mgmt/portupgrade can install third-party software from both binary packages and the Ports Collection, pkgng only deals with installing and registering of binary packages into the system. Software installed from the Ports Collection are registered into the system as pkgng packages that can be updated by using binary packages or the Ports Collection".

Comment 1 Chris Rees freebsd_committer

2013-05-31 17:15:47 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->crees

I'll take it.

Comment 2 Chris Rees freebsd_committer

2013-05-31 18:04:55 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

How about the following patch? 
http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/patches/doc-handbook-ports-pkgng-portmaster.diff 
"If the ports tree is used directly instead of pre-built packages, pkgng 
is not a replacement for tools such as ports-mgmt/portmaster or 
ports-mgmt/portupgrade. These tools work together with pkgng to update 
packages that are installed via ports."

Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:01:25 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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