Re: Upgraded from 13.x release to 14.4 and now I can't use the ports tree?

Ok so unfortunately this thing bummed out on zstd now:


===>  Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2
===>  Checking if zstd is already installed
===>   An older version of zstd is already installed (zstd-1.5.7_1)
       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of zstd
       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped making 
"/usr/ports/archivers/zstd/work/.install_done.zstd._usr_local" in 
/usr/ports/archivers/zstd
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "install" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd


#pkg info |grep zstd
zstd-1.5.7_1                   Fast real-time compression algorith


# make deinstall; make install clean
===>  Deinstalling for zstd
===>   Deinstalling zstd-1.5.7_1
No packages matched for pattern 'zstd'

Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
1 packages requested for removal: 0 locked, 1 missing
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "deinstall" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd
===>  Installing for zstd-1.5.7_2
===>  Checking if zstd is already installed
===>   An older version of zstd is already installed (zstd-1.5.7_1)
       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of zstd
       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped making 
"/usr/ports/archivers/zstd/work/.install_done.zstd._usr_local" in 
/usr/ports/archivers/zstd
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped making "install clean" in /usr/ports/archivers/zstd


So make check-plist shows:


/usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make check-plist
====> Checking for pkg-plist issues (check-plist)
===> Parsing plist
===> Checking for items in STAGEDIR missing from pkg-plist
===> Checking for items in pkg-plist which are not in STAGEDIR
===> No pkg-plist issues found (check-plist)


/usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make stage-qa
====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa)
/!\ To run stage-qa automatically add DEVELOPER=yes to your environment /!\


So added to /etc/make.conf and now:


/usr/ports/archivers/zstd # make stage-qa
====> Running Q/A tests (stage-qa


That's all I get??


Regards,


Kaya



On 5/27/26 2:22 AM, Kaya Saman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> On 5/26/26 9:23 PM, Maku Bex wrote:
>> You ran the commands under '/usr/ports' instead of 
>> '/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster'. You need to `cd` to the port 
>> name's folder then run the commands. In your case:
>>
>> # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
>> # make check-plist && make stage-qa
>>
>
> Sorry I think I just blindly followed instructions or misunderstood as 
> I had been awake for a little too long.
>
>
> Some good news, after removing and re-fetching the ports tree, I was 
> able to rebuild Portmaster through using the standard "make" command 
> and portmaster itself.
>
>
> At the moment, I've just done a: portmaster -adyf --no-confirm
>
>
> hopefully if the @ports system has stabilized now it should be able to 
> complete the build of Perl which it got stuck on. Currently it's on 9 
> out of 828 ports, so maybe in a few hours once it gets to say port 11 
> or something where Perl gets rebuilt I should know.
>
>
> The machine is only a quad core Xeon so this will take some time but 
> hopefully now it will build?
>
>
> I'll keep everyone posted :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Kaya
>
>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2026, 14:31 Edward Sanford Sutton, III 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>     On 5/25/26 22:43, Kaya Saman wrote:
>>     > Hi,
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > I've just gone through the upgrade procedure described here:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > and updated to 14.4 from 13.5 (I think was the latest release
>>     version?),
>>     > uname output: 14.4-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > When I try to build ports now, this is what I keep getting:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> Creating a backup package for old version portmaster-3.35
>>     > Creating package for portmaster-3.35
>>     > pkg-static: file
>>     '/usr/local/share/licenses/portmaster-3.35/BSD2CLAUSE'
>>     > is missing
>>     > pkg-static: package creation failed
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> Package creation failed for portmaster-3.35!
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> Ignore this error  [i]
>>     > ===>>> Abort update       [a]
>>     > ===>>> Retry              [r]
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> How would you like to proceed? [i]
>>     >
>>     > No packages matched for pattern 'portmaster-3.35'
>>     >
>>     > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
>>     > 1 packages requested for removal: 0 locked, 1 missing
>>     >
>>     > ===>  Installing for portmaster-3.35
>>     > ===>  Checking if portmaster is already installed
>>     > ===>   portmaster-3.35 is already installed
>>     >        You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port
>>     again
>>     >        by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
>>     >        If you really wish to overwrite the old port of portmaster
>>     >        without deleting it first, set the variable
>>     "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
>>     >        in your environment or the "make install" command line.
>>     > *** Error code 1
>>     >
>>     > Stop.
>>     > make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/
>>     > work/.install_done.portmaster._usr_local" in
>>     /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/
>>     > portmaster
>>     > *** Error code 1
>>     >
>>     > Stop.
>>     > make: stopped making "install" in /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> A backup package for portmaster-3.35 should
>>     >         be located in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> Installation of portmaster-3.35 (ports-mgmt/portmaster)
>>     failed
>>     > ===>>> Aborting update
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > ===>>> You can restart from the point of failure with this
>>     command line:
>>     >         portmaster <flags> ports-mgmt/portmaster
>>     >
>>     > This command has been saved to ~/portmasterfail.txt
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > For some reason I'm unable to use either portmaster or even the
>>     standard
>>     > 'make' command under any of the ports eg:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > :/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster # make deinstall; make
>>     install clean
>>     > ===>  Deinstalling for portmaster
>>     > ===>   Deinstalling portmaster-3.35
>>     > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
>>     > Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages
>>     (of 0
>>     > packages in the universe):
>>     >
>>     > Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>>     >      portmaster: 3.33
>>     >
>>     > Number of packages to be removed: 1
>>     > [1/1] Deinstalling portmaster-3.33...
>>     > [1/1] Deleting files for portmaster-3.33: 100%
>>     > ===>  Installing for portmaster-3.35
>>     > ===>  Checking if portmaster is already installed
>>     > ===>   portmaster-3.35 is already installed
>>     >        You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port
>>     again
>>     >        by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
>>     >        If you really wish to overwrite the old port of portmaster
>>     >        without deleting it first, set the variable
>>     "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
>>     >        in your environment or the "make install" command line.
>>     > *** Error code 1
>>     >
>>     > Stop.
>>     > make[1]: stopped making "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster/
>>     > work/.install_done.portmaster._usr_local" in
>>     /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/
>>     > portmaster
>>     > *** Error code 1
>>     >
>>     > Stop.
>>     > make: stopped making "install clean" in
>>     /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > There's a mismatch somewhere but what's going on?
>>
>>        The ports tree, and therefore portmaster, perform installs and
>>     uninstalls by running pkg. Running `pkg query %v portmaster` should
>>     display what is says is currently the installed version number.
>>     If it is
>>     installed according to pkg, then `pkg delete portmaster` should
>>     be the
>>     correct action to remove it. `pkg info` outputs all installed
>>     packages
>>     with version on the package name and comment beside it if you
>>     want to
>>     manually review your full list.
>>        I'm not sure what would have brought it to a state of always
>>     removing
>>     pkg 3.33 when the ports tree and/or portmaster says it is
>>     uninstalling
>>     3.35 before that. I'd guess just an output bug where they assume
>>     its the
>>     same version but that is misleading if that is happening and
>>     deserves a
>>     bug report; better to display no version number on a stage's
>>     output if
>>     the output is going to not match the command.
>>
>>     > Do I need to update the ports tree? It seems there is no more
>>     "portsnap"
>>     > command so should I clean out /usr/ports completely then use
>>     the git
>>     > version described here:
>>
>>        You should decide if there is anything in there that you want
>>     backed
>>     up first: distfiles will only be used by a port calling for them and
>>     generally require size and checksum match to be used so should be
>>     safe
>>     to keep and will save download time/bandwidth. Work directories
>>     of many
>>     ports get a versioned folder inside of it but the ports tree
>>     instructions don't check that what already exists is correct; in any
>>     case I'd let them all go if builds are giving you trouble (just
>>     as 'make
>>     clean' would have done in a port's folder).
>>
>>     > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > I guess this would be needed: # git clone --depth 1 https://
>>     > git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git <http://git.FreeBSD.org/ports.git>
>>     /usr/ports ?
>>
>>        I don't use '--depth 1' when I use git but seeing that discussed
>>     seems vaguely familiar. As I do want git history to be accurate and
>>     complete and I do make changes to the ports tree and with the
>>     intention
>>     of submitting patches I create it without that part. I migrated
>>     when use
>>     of git was still fairly new and I didn't reread that whole
>>     document but
>>     I recall I had /usr/ports as its own ZFS dataset and git gave me
>>     grief
>>     in trying to clone to that location, probably caused by the
>>     existence of
>>     /usr/ports/.zfs but I forget). I think there is another flag that
>>     suppresses such complaint but I think I cloned it to another
>>     location
>>     that was a normal directory and moved its contents including hidden
>>     content to /usr/ports. Git maintains its own data (only?) in
>>     /usr/ports/.git so that must be transferred too if moving the clone.
>>
>>     > Regards,
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > Kaya
>>