From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 4 19:03:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D21C95C9 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:03:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A8336F1 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=smtp.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U2RKr-0002rG-19 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:04:09 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by smtp.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1U2RKU-000CfP-QZ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:03:46 +0000 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:03:15 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which pkg repository with 9.1 Message-Id: <20130204190315.e7a64819c502038e2e2cd605@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:03:56 -0000 On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 19:53:40 +0100 mhca12 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:48 PM, mhca12 wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:31 PM, mhca12 wrote: > >> I have just installed 9.1 amd64 on a test machine and wanted > >> to install rsync. Is pkgng the right choice and if so is there > >> a handy guide how to get started or should I use pkg_add -r? > >> > >> Is this any different for i386? It used to be that there's > >> no i386 pkgng repository. > > > > I ran pkg and it fetched and setup pkgng. That was easy. > > Is it possible that the November 2012 security incident means > there's still no installable packaged via pkg-install? > I was going to install rsync. I believe it is still the case that there is no official package repository. I've gone to using poudriere to maintain a local pkgng repository. Once set up (not too hard) it's remarkably painless. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith