Re: Using ports across major version changes

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 09:29:50AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2025, at 06:30, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2025 at 05:45:03PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
> >> 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/
> 
> Turns out the above line was because the MOVED line for it
> was incorrect. That has been fixed to also list
> x11-fonts/gentium as what to use instead:
> 
> Wed, 17 Dec 2025
> 
>     • git: 24b7568ff29c - main - MOVED: x11-fonts/gentium-basic is superceeded by x11-fonts/gentium Matthew Seaman
> 
> >>> [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?
> >> 
> > 
> > Yes to both. 
> >> Sounds like you can replace x11-fonts/gentium-basic with
> >> x11-fonts/gentium in package.list and can:
> >> 
> >> pkg delete x11-fonts/gentium-basic
> >> 
> > Yes to both.
> > 
> >> Then try the bulk build again based on the updated file.
> > 
> > Looks like it's working.....Oops, maybe not:
> > 00:11:32] [03] [00:02:29] Saved devel/autoconf | autoconf-2.72 wrkdir to: /usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs/main-default/default/autoconf-2.72.tbz
> > [00:11:37] [03] [00:02:34] Finished devel/autoconf | autoconf-2.72: Failed: run-depends
> > [00:11:49] [03] [00:02:46] Skipping graphics/GraphicsMagick | GraphicsMagick-1.3.43_3,1: Dependent port devel/autoconf | autoconf-2.72 failed
> > followed by a torrent of "Skipping.....[various port names]"
> > lines.
> > 
> > I'll let it run until advised to intervene. For now it doesn't look promising. 
> 
> Failed: run-depends
> 
> The autoconf-2.72 related poudriere build log file will need
> to be investigated for evidence about that.

Aye, there's the rub:
===========================================================================
=======================<phase: run-depends    >============================
===>   autoconf-2.72 depends on package: autoconf-switch>=0 - not found
===>   Installing existing package /packages/All/autoconf-switch-20220527.pkg
[main-default-job-03] Installing autoconf-switch-20220527...
pkg-static: wrong architecture: FreeBSD:15:* instead of FreeBSD:16:aarch64

That's what I thought was being fixed 8-(

Failed to install the following 1 package(s): /packages/All/autoconf-switch-20220527.pkg
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "run-depends" in /usr/ports/devel/autoconf
=>> Cleaning up wrkdir
===>  Cleaning for autoconf-2.72
build of devel/autoconf | autoconf-2.72 ended at Wed Dec 17 06:21:44 PST 2025
build time: 00:02:37
!!! build failure encountered !!!

Seems like a chicken-or-egg sort of problem. But, that objection is
also true of many ports presently being rebuilt successfully. Is 
autoconf somehow special?

Thanks for writing!

bob prohaska