Bug 233799

Summary:	ports-mgmt/pkg: pkg install should report if a port is broken instead of acting like it does not exist.
Product:	Ports & Packages	Reporter:	Johannes Lundberg <johalun0>
Component:	Individual Port(s)	Assignee:	freebsd-pkg (Nobody) <pkg>
Status:	Closed Not A Bug
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	bapt, grahamperrin
Priority:	---	Flags:	bugzilla: maintainer-feedback? (pkg)
Version:	Latest
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Johannes Lundberg 2018-12-05 12:54:32 UTC

Just like the title says.

I tried to install a package "fs-uae" which I wasn't sure about the correct package name. `pkg install` or `pkg search` could not find any such package. I tried e-uae, uae, fs-uae-launcher but none gave me what I wanted. It turns out fs-uae was the correct name and that is has been marked broken. It would be nice if pkg could tell me about this. 

Cheers

Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2019-02-02 08:17:23 UTC

AFAICT from <https://www.freshports.org/emulators/fs-uae/> it's no longer marked as BROKEN. 

For me, 

root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # pkg rquery %e -r FreeBSD fs-uae
root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # date ; uname -v
Sat Feb  2 08:16:30 GMT 2019
FreeBSD 13.0-CURRENT r343308 GENERIC-NODEBUG 
root@momh167-gjp4-8570p:~ # 

– I guess that it's not in the repo for 13.0-CURRENT.

Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer

2019-02-02 08:34:45 UTC

> – I guess that it's not in the repo for 13.0-CURRENT.

fs-uae-launcher-2.8.4_2.txz is listed at 
<https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/>

No comparable file at 
<https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:amd64/latest/All/>

Comment 3 Baptiste Daroussin freebsd_committer

2021-08-18 08:45:18 UTC

pkg has been intentionnally decoupled as much as possible from the ports tree, so that a repository is not aware the ports tree, because pkg is used elsewhere than freebsd.

That said, I think we can provide some kind of hints which could be populated by the package building system. I added this idea to the TODO list