portmaster asking if switch to new pkg format- is it needed

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Thu May 15 23:44:13 PDT 2014


On 5/16/2014 06:54, Edward M wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I just installed portmaster from dports and once the installation ended
> i'm presented
> with this message:
> 
> 
>        Enable PKGNG as your package format:
> 
>           # echo 'WITH_PKGNG=yes" >> /etc/make.conf
> 
>       Then convert your /var/db/pkg database to the new pkg format:
> 
> 
> my question is  DragonFly is already using pkgng and was wondering if is
> safe or needed to
> execute the above instructions- afraid of breaking stuff?
> 

ignore this.  DF never used the old format.



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