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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:31:49 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Victor Balada Diaz <victor@bsdes.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-announce@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] [HEADSUP] current switched by default to pkgng
Message-ID:  <20121010163148.GE62709@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121010162508.GQ4191@equilibrium.bsdes.net>
References:  <20121010134421.GI26497@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20121010162508.GQ4191@equilibrium.bsdes.net>

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 06:25:08PM +0200, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 03:44:21PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >=20
> > If you are using the ports tree on a FreeBSD current setup, then you are
> > concerned by the announce.
> >=20
> > As nvidia-drivers has been fixed and is now properly working with pkgng=
, the
> > ports tree as been switch by default to use pkgng on FreeBSD Current ba=
sed on
> > version >=3D 1000017 which was the version when we tested the switch co=
de.
> >=20
> > Make sure to read UPDATING (from ports) to correctly migrate your syste=
m or find
> > instruction to make your system still running with legacy pkg_install t=
ools.
> >=20
> > regards,
> > Bapt
>=20
> Hello Baptiste,
>=20
> Thanks a lot for your hard work.
>=20
> I've been using pkgng for a while on 9.0 and it's been a great experience.
>=20
> Right now you can use pointyhat packages[1] if you use old pkg tools. Is
> there any plan to create binary packages more often than once per release?
>=20
> Regards.
> Victor.
>=20
> [1]: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-10-packages-latest/
> --=20
> La prueba m=E1s fehaciente de que existe vida inteligente en otros
> planetas, es que no han intentado contactar con nosotros.=20

Yes there is http://pkg.FreeBSD.org (no website in there no need to try to
there) which will point you to pkgbeta.freebsd.org where some packages resi=
des.

Unfortunatly the package building cluster needs some time to get more relia=
ble
and thus the packages out there are not updated very often.

regards,
Bapt

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