Re: Using ports across major version changes

bob prohaska <fbsd_at_www.zefox.net> wrote on
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:47:14 UTC :

> On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 08:49:06PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > bob prohaska <[email protected]> writes:
> > > What's the best way to restore normal operation? Something like 
> > > poudriere bulk -a
> > 
> > poudriere bulk $(pkg query -e '%#r == 0' '%o')
> > 
> 
> Something's amiss. A simple copy-paste of the command yields
> "Illegal variable name.", maybe I'm using the wrong shell.

And older --and possibly less shell dependent-- notation
would be the use of a pair of backquotes:

poudriere bulk `pkg query -e '%#r == 0' '%o'`

(That notation is not so nice for usage that involves
wanting nested usage.)

> However, it appears that pkg query -e '%#r == 0' '%o'
> generates a list of built packages, so I tried running
> pkg query -e '%#r == 0' '%o' > package.list
> which worked, followed by
> poudriere bulk -j main -f package.list
> 
> That got off to a good start but didn't end well:
> 
> [00:00:01] Creating the reference jail... done
> [00:00:54] Mounting system devices for main-default
> [00:00:54] Mounting ports/packages/distfiles
> [00:00:54] Stashing existing package repository
> [00:00:58] Mounting packages from: /usr/local/poudriere/data/packages/main-default
> /etc/resolv.conf -> /usr/local/poudriere/data/.m/main-default/ref/etc/resolv.conf
> [00:00:58] Starting jail main-default
> [00:01:10] Logs: /usr/local/poudriere/data/logs/bulk/main-default/2025-12-16_15h32m41s
> [00:01:10] Loading MOVED for /usr/local/poudriere/data/.m/main-default/ref/usr/ports
> [00:01:25] Ports supports: FLAVORS SUBPACKAGES SELECTED_OPTIONS
> [00:01:25] Gathering ports metadata
> [00:01:25] Error: MOVED: devel/libpthread-stubs 2023-03-12 No consumers left and never supported pthread stubs in libc on FreeBSD
> [00:01:25] Warning: MOVED: devel/pygobject3-common renamed to devel/pygobject-common
> [00:01:25] Warning: MOVED: net/openldap24-client renamed to net/openldap25-client
> [00:01:25] Error: MOVED: x11-fonts/gentium-basic 2025-12-04 Has expired: Superceeded by Gentium-7.000 https://software.sil.org/gentium/download/
> [00:01:25] Warning: MOVED: x11-themes/kf5-oxygen-icons5 renamed to x11-themes/oxygen-icons
> [00:01:25] Error: Fatal errors encountered gathering initial ports metadata
> [00:01:25] Cleaning up
> [00:01:25] Unmounting file systems
> root@nemesis:/usr/local/poudriere # 
> 
> The reaction to errors is surprising; it seems like both have enough context to handle.
> The first package can be omitted, and the second package can be replaced.

> 
> What am I missing?


Sounds like you can remove devel/libpthread-stubs from
package.list and can pkg delete it?

Sounds like you can replace x11-fonts/gentium-basic with
x11-fonts/gentium in package.list and can:

pkg delete x11-fonts/gentium-basic

Then try the bulk build again based on the updated file.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com