How to deal with FreeBSD's move to pkgconf?
You should always read /usr/ports/UPDATING
before carrying out a port upgrade. In this case, it has this to say about the deprecation of pkg-config
:
20120726:
AFFECTS: users of devel/pkg-config
AUTHOR: [email protected]
devel/pkg-config has been replaced by devel/pkgconf
# portmaster -o devel/pkgconf devel/pkg-config
or
# portupgrade -fo devel/pkgconf pkg-config-\*
pkgng:
# pkg set -o devel/pkg-config:devel/pkgconf
# pkg install -f devel/pkgconf
If you follow these instructions, your ports management tool of choice (which seems to be portmaster
in your case) will remove pkg-config
and install pkgconf
, and will update the package registry database under /var/db/pkg
to reflect the change. If you were a portupgrade
user, the upgrade would also fix up the dependency graph in portupgrade
's own database, which is separate from the standard registry.
Future installs/upgrades should "just work".
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Peter Smit
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Peter Smit almost 2 years
It seems that the FreeBSD ports tree is busy transitioning from pkg-config to pkgconf. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00018.html
I first thought as an end user this would not influence me and that a tool like portmaster would be taking care of any transition. However today, the regular
portmaster -a
gave the following problem:sudo portmaster -a ===>>> Gathering distinfo list for installed ports ===>>> Starting check of installed ports for available updates ===>>> The devel/pkg-config port moved to devel/pkgconf ===>>> Reason: pkg-config has been replace by pkgconf ===>>> Launching child to reinstall pkg-config-0.25_1 ===>>> All >> pkg-config-0.25_1 (1/1) ===>>> The devel/pkg-config port moved to devel/pkgconf ===>>> Reason: pkg-config has been replace by pkgconf ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf ===>>> Launching 'make checksum' for devel/pkgconf in background ===> No options to configure ===>>> Gathering dependency list for devel/pkgconf from ports ===>>> No dependencies for devel/pkgconf ===>>> Returning to update check of installed ports ===>>> All >> (1) ===>>> The following actions will be taken if you choose to proceed: Install devel/pkgconf ===>>> Proceed? y/n [y] Finishing with: Stop in /usr/ports/devel/pkgconf. ===>>> Installation of pkgconf-0.8.4 (devel/pkgconf) failed ===>>> Aborting update ===>>> Update for devel/pkgconf failed ===>>> Aborting update Terminated ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this command line: portmaster <flags> devel/pkgconf
What should a 'normal' user of FreeBSD do? I can't remove pkg-config as a lot of ports depend on it. How can this be fixed?
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sr_ almost 12 years
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