From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 20:18:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E028912C; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [198.74.231.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27EE2A29; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 20:18:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B8E046B1A; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s73KIb56072320; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:18:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) with ESMTP id s73KIbxY072317; Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:18:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 16:18:37 -0400 (EDT) From: doug Reply-To: doug@safeport.com To: Matthew Seaman Subject: Re: pkg repository question In-Reply-To: <53DE924C.7080402@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: References: <53DE924C.7080402@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:18:38 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 20:18:39 -0000 On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 03/08/2014 20:19, doug@safeport.com wrote: >> I was building an old 9.1 system to check something out. It was >> convenience to use a 9.1-rc3 a DVD. I got an error saying there were no >> repositories for non releases. Perfectly understandable, so I updated to >> 9.1-rel and all is well. > > This sounds suspiciously like the behaviour of the old pkg_tools stuff. > I can't remember for sure if 9.1 came with pkg(8) as standard or not -- > I don't believe it did. Are you sure you weren't inadvertently trying > to install some old-style packages? I do not think so. What I meant to do (and think I did) was to portsnap, build pkg, run pkg2ng (even though is/should not be required) and then do a pkg to install a package. This is a VM system so its easy to shake things out. I just want to learn how it all fits together before September >> That prompted two questions: first, is there a way to have forced the >> use of a 9.1 repository; and secondly how long will old repositories be >> available? > > With pkg(8), there is no such thing as a '9.1' repository -- at least, > not anything officially supplied by the FreeBSD project. > > There are repositories for eg, freebsd:9:x86:64 which are suitable for > any version of FreeBSD with a major version of '9'. Although for best > results, you should be running a version (9.x-STABLE, 9,x-RELEASE) at > least as new as the oldest supported release with a 9.x version number. > Currently that's 9.1-RELEASE. > > Updated packages for 9.x release will be provided for as long as there > are still supported versions of 9.x available. The packages will be > built on the earliest still-supported 9.x-RELEASE, which will be > 9.3-RELEASE towards the end of 9.x lifetime in December 2016[*]. These > should probably still work on earlier releases, but no guarantees. With the old package system the package directory systems seem to hang around for much longer periods. Will the initial release of the pkg packages be on the release dvd set?