From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 5 03:11:20 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 9147221F for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 03:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yh0-x233.google.com (mail-yh0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c01::233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ECE1CE for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2013 03:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-yh0-f51.google.com with SMTP id q1so258162yhf.10 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:11:19 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nkja/XJhc/2kBnPcP+5G9bXcQYfhnMhPhY77FxrWoFY=; b=GDVqCDfqfqazRDfLtlf2BZzrHc66e4S5uar2uY0A/RV2W1Y1w+1Wk8De3PJdIvQnkw 7JAHupSNSPICeV4dIUCbyS8+fcU/n+DMuxa/1IS0IQr8jtq3Lt/0zwYBM42SN+hGj4P6 N2boapk68dX9cr1YVg8hveVUgb3rmAzk+5cIN1Lhbz9bWZs3kZtgN50/6UWw2IeJo6Yh /IslCF+KLQoXGdA2PXTP+5eJeNGoIVMnWQiHjEJZiKqcmOGt5SYRhfsuKupATzZYDjVE GqwCgCvvMNsangtAX97mty1CC87l3doNDAGEjhKm72AscFebubceWjBoDfaWhWSrqFsR zRVA== X-Received: by 10.236.134.136 with SMTP id s8mr29469378yhi.13.1360033484129; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:04:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (vid-196.dhcp.grp10.tnmmrl.infoave.net. [204.116.254.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f16sm17763425ann.9.2013.02.04.19.04.42 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:04:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <511076C8.9080207@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:04:40 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130129 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Isom Subject: Re: which pkg repository with 9.1 References: <20130204190315.e7a64819c502038e2e2cd605@sohara.org> <51106FBB.30907@gmail.com> <511074A0.5080306@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <511074A0.5080306@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:11:20 -0000 On 02/04/13 20:55, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 2/4/2013 8:34 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: >> >> I really think a message needs to go out on the announce list (as well >> as ports@ and questions@, others as appropriate) about the fact there is >> no official pkg repo at the moment. I'm constantly seeing emails about >> this on this list. > > I changed to pkgng a couple weeks ago before realizing the "Security > Incident" was holding up binary ports. I used to install from source > most of the time, and updates seemed to be required to be from source. > But now it's just from source or nothing. I want pkgng to help deal > with some of the cruft that ends up occurring when installing ports that > have a lot of dependencies. > > What's really annoying to me is that a clean install cluster, so > presumably secure, could probably rebuild the whole ports tree in the > time it's taken to get something available. I've almost always built from source since I switched to FreeBSD (I sometimes, during the initial installation, used pkgs), it's longer but more reliable. -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt