Re: pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 05:35:43PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: So the file system is the package management system? File system == base system + xenocara + pkg system + user files We now have mostly accurate information for all of these, which is what the end run of pkg_check tries to do. Is,

Re: pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Marc Espie es...@nerim.net wrote: For instance, here's what pkg_check says on a somewhat older machine I haven't cleansed in a while, along with my commentary. (warning, long post). Indeed. Like they said, the devil lies in the details. There are about 10

Re: pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:46:36PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: I then tried using pkg_check to see if I could clear whatever I had done, and it tells me about unknown directories and files, a long list of files and directories which should have nothing to do with packages, I think, including such

pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-22 Thread Joel Rees
I recently tried, for fun, or because I wasn't thinking, I'm not sure which, doing a cvs -up in /usr/ports. It told me P or U for archivers/cabextract, net/isc-bind, and www/drupal6/views, none of which should be installed on my system. (I don't remember which was P and which U.) Since they are

Re: pkg_add vs. cvs -up, and pkg_check telling me about unknown files directories

2015-02-22 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com writes: I recently tried, for fun, or because I wasn't thinking, I'm not sure which, doing a cvs -up in /usr/ports. It told me P or U for archivers/cabextract, net/isc-bind, and www/drupal6/views, none of which should be installed on my system. (I don't remember