Bug 180658

Summary:	[handbook] add detail to pkgng part of the handbook
Product:	Documentation	Reporter:	Michael W Lucas <mwlucas>
Component:	Books & Articles	Assignee:	freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Michael W Lucas 2013-07-19 17:30:00 UTC

The pkgng setup for 9.1 tells users to use the pkg command to convert
to pkgng. The pkg command is not suitable for scripting or automated
installs, as it requires human intervention. You can still use pkg_add
-r pkg to perform the conversion, however.

Fix: 

I don't have a current docs hacking environment set up, but I figured
if I wrote some text and sent it in an active committer would happily
take it. At least, that's what we did back in FreeBSD's Bronze
Age. ;-)

I would recommend some text like this.

FreeBSD 9.1 and later includes a utility for interactive
"bootstrapping" of pkgng.  This bootstrap utility downloads and
installs pkgng. To bootstrap the system, run:

# /usr/sbin/pkg

For non-interactive pkgng installs use the pkgng package, as used in
older FreeBSD versions.
How-To-Repeat: 
Try to write an Ansible playbook to convert from pkg_add to pkgng
while using pkg.

Comment 1 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer

2013-10-06 16:42:41 UTC

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Hi Michael,

Dru Lavigne recently updated the pkgng part of the handbook with the
instructions you are referring to. Can you check to see whether that
will solve the PR?

Thanks & best regards

Benedict Reuschling
FreeBSD Documentation Committer
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Comment 2 mwlucas 2013-10-07 00:57:42 UTC

Looks good to me, go ahead & close. Thanks!

On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 05:42:41PM +0200, Benedict Reuschling wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
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> Dru Lavigne recently updated the pkgng part of the handbook with the
> instructions you are referring to. Can you check to see whether that
> will solve the PR?
> 
> Thanks & best regards
> 
> Benedict Reuschling
> FreeBSD Documentation Committer
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Comment 3 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer

2013-10-07 07:34:07 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The issue was fixed by an update to the pkgng chapter of the handbook. 
Thanks for filing the PR. closed!