From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 12 00:35:05 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@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 ESMTP id 2837BADD for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:35:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jankyj@unfs.us) Received: from morbid.purplehat.org (morbid.purplehat.org [206.225.82.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0612C2F0A for ; Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (morbid.purplehat.org [206.225.82.173]) by morbid.purplehat.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79616D8CCD5 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:26:54 -0700 (MST) Received: from morbid.purplehat.org ([206.225.82.173]) by localhost (morbid.purplehat.org [206.225.82.173]) (maiad, port 10024) with ESMTP id 60248-01 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:26:43 -0700 (MST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (mx2.purplehat.org [24.8.6.185]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jankyj@unfs.us) by morbid.purplehat.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A96E6D8CCD4 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:26:43 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <52082BC5.3090905@unfs.us> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 18:26:45 -0600 From: Janky Jay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports or packages? References: <67A0D96F-A422-4F0C-9A99-D0C0C999BA08@charter.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:35:05 -0000 Hello, On 08/11/2013 06:24 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Stan Gammons wrote: > >> >> On Aug 11, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk < >> m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Stan Gammons >> wrote: >>> >>>> I know the binary packages were taken down after the security incident a >>>> while back. Are many/any binary packages available now or does one still >>>> have to build most everything from ports? If binary packages are >> available >>>> now, what is the URL to the repository? >>>> >>>> Stan >>>> _______________________________________________ >>> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html >>> >>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ >>> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ >>> ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ >>> >> >> >> Assuming one has converted to the new packagement tool and added >> WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf, one could use the links for packagesite >> in pkg.conf to install binary packages with pkg? Can one have multiple >> packagesite statements in pkg.conf? >> >> I see the repositories don't have the latest versions, so portupgrade or >> portmaster would be needed to upgrade to the latest versions from ports? >> If so, can one mix and match pkg and portupgrade or portmaster or is that >> asking for trouble? i.e. use pkg to install packages and portupgrade or >> portmaster to upgrade packages. >> >> >> Stan >> >> >> >> >> > > The above links are NOT containing new pkgng kind packages yet . > > For pkgng compatible packages , you may see the following pages : > > http://www.exonetric.com/ > http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/ > http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/freebsd%3A10%3Ax86%3A64/2013-02-09/All/ > > > > Thank you very much . > > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk I +1 this. Also, regarding your question about mixing packages (PNGNG) and ports is just fine. I use PKGNG and portmaster all the time and they work fine together. I can't speak for portupgrade, though. Regards, Janky Jay, III