From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 10:16:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078E0106566C for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:16:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADA48FC14 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q0AAGEsJ072229 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:16:15 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q0AAGEsJ072229 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1326190575; bh=1gpJGrwXJi6iPyUZ27NSOPKadVaylpjrc6ilMTdIXt8=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc; b=EELEJZRYyYfWJgWdc/PqPCeFSmxOsyVP6ip4j2l5uCYSGtifhvt5Kv7X6p/XPa8bC r1NSiqeveLCxWGSD2F4gqSaLg1Kup3fII4ncx+PnyE7ZUCbsnbcaqfSVYZe+5nAIJE 9GoOgJOfoXYNjqvwLa94LnH0EigsZLcMPJcvC8iI= Message-ID: <4F0C0FE6.6040002@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:16:06 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <07e401cccefb$364338b0$a2c9aa10$@fisglobal.com> <20120110092307.GA87677@aperturescience.org> In-Reply-To: <20120110092307.GA87677@aperturescience.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB9B96161D8D79DCF54455FE6" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: ports vs packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:16:19 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB9B96161D8D79DCF54455FE6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/01/2012 09:23, Dmitry Sarkisov wrote: > Would be nice to know if there any plans on switching to pkgng or any o= ther pkg management=20 > system in a future. pkgng is under active development with the stated aim of replacing the current packaging system. If you want to get involved, check out the #pkgng channel on irc.freenode.net It's still too early in the pkgng development cycle for a decision to have been made about if and when it becomes the new standard packaging system. Given it is such a major infrastructure change the switch over will have to be carefully managed and I'd expect there to be a lot of activity over on freebsd-ports@ while it is all in beta. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enigB9B96161D8D79DCF54455FE6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8MD+4ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzbfACfV2+qJnu99jJGAiXAF43BUZQi UscAn2MZARblUPKVqEu+AUBAHxirIOSk =ZR73 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB9B96161D8D79DCF54455FE6--