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Date:      Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:38:55 +0200
From:      Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports system quality
Message-ID:  <4E60B23F.7050102@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110902100401.GO28186@home.opsec.eu>
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On 09/02/2011 12:04, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>> http://pkgin.net/
> [...]
>>> pkgin is known to work and have been tested under the following platforms
> [...]
>> So, what do you actually mean by this?
>
> Probably just this: What about trying to port pkgin for FreeBSD, so that
> pkgin can also be used on FreeBSD ?
>

We are working on pkgng[1], which is a complete rewrite of pkg_install 
instead of a higher level tool on top of it. Stay tuned for the alpha2 
announcement.

> If this solves the binary pkg-install problem in a generic
> way on many plattforms (I have not looked at the implementation),
> that might be a nice feature.
>

[1]: https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng



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