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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:26:55 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>
Cc:        pkg@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>, stable@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool
Message-ID:  <20140902022655.GI43581@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net>
References:  <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> <CAOFF%2BZ1MOr9-rYbwHYWqBKjMvRPwUnew4jThEoJ_WkoTmwyNsQ@mail.gmail.com> <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net>

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On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:51:31AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Michelle Sullivan, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Correct, take a 9.2 install disk, install it, portsnap and then
> install pkg on it...  Oh wait, you can't.. pkg_install is broken,
> and 9.2 install disks don't have pkg in the BaseOS....

So what?  The pkg port uses _ITSELF_ to register.  The "pkg" in the
base system isn't pkg, it just a bootstrap to fetch the pkg pkg (which
them uses itself to register too).  If you're using the pkg _PORT_,
it's not even involved in the first place.


-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/
           On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.



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