From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 20:56:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C93106564A for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:56:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jlaffaye.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DADBB8FC15 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so1219417fxg.13 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uaAOFob9UJqVeumt/G84u/wiQBsOx9tpmLuugaNLuCw=; b=HtM7J1lMtmp/Xi8oCDT5kxdW4Uny+vfUX4kaFpNqaM4uDOMP8m3SzBdUIWUlHQoJcX e7G6rF/OccbBC1Sg//JHr4eP+rjxVMBn+ng8CkHUX+WFTE/EwUfaJxSIuWU7YrYxGF1x A9F+G5rAVwsf6uZl659V4zIuClGwUgctVFFaQ= Received: by 10.223.6.26 with SMTP id 26mr1446801fax.40.1315947377774; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chulak.jlaffaye.net (esc31-1-78-245-92-55.fbx.proxad.net. [78.245.92.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r3sm1379131fam.26.2011.09.13.13.56.16 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julien Laffaye Message-ID: <4E6FC372.8030605@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:56:18 +0200 From: Julien Laffaye User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi References: <1315864556.1747.103.camel@xenon> <20110912190558.641a3219@seibercom.net> <20110912230943.GD33455@guilt.hydra> <4E6E99BC.4050909@missouri.edu> <1315878800.26544.17.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> In-Reply-To: <1315878800.26544.17.camel@z6000.lenzicasa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: testing PKGNG... X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:56:19 -0000 On 09/13/2011 03:53, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > Hello, > > I moved all my servers (about 40) to the pkgng (new generation) > package/port > system, and I can say that it is amazing... it is not yet finish, and > have some > minor "issues", but works very well, and is lightning fast.. > > It is almost the same as "pacman" (from Archlinux).. you build a > "repository" and install packages from that repository. when you > update the repository, the other servers can do an "upgrade".. > you do not have to have the ports tree in each server, and > you build the ports only on the master server.... > > in the master server, there is a full gnome2 (with 842 dependencies) > that install right on the shelf with only one command: pkg install > gnome2 > now I have a full functional server runing gnome, libreoffice, inkscape > hplip, cups printing, gdm... in about 30 minutes from internet.... > > > Sergio... > I am glad to see that it works well for you. But I want to emphasize that this is still experimental code! With 40 machines, I guess you have the biggest pkgng installation out there, so you will certainly find bugs quicker than others. We definitely want to know about them! Thank you for your feedback! Julien