From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 13 21:20:06 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED17D106566B for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:20:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jlaffaye.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA6B8FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:20:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxg9 with SMTP id 9so1246733fxg.13 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:20:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/wIqIdtP4hXpkfqnJe6+fSaerEGjqSqahGr5dQj1G0I=; b=ToFGRQBPzVsLKs5PJAg8LQiPxGjqhVZrVoMG6laDv7amfi9Er4GxkDi1zwvYSMkhXI gsna/p9Pbmx74TIowKROY89MyvPkBlZslECRZr5PHjAXskcqLu7KL7sSprc2f0l7xrpn l07DiT3VC8lbZ40I7z4P+3GpOs5mHL2DmXyTM= Received: by 10.223.54.202 with SMTP id r10mr480662fag.114.1315948805340; Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:20:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chulak.jlaffaye.net (esc31-1-78-245-92-55.fbx.proxad.net. [78.245.92.55]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a1sm1478145fab.4.2011.09.13.14.20.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julien Laffaye Message-ID: <4E6FC905.80701@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:20:05 +0200 From: Julien Laffaye User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110706 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20110913211619.GA46319@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20110913211619.GA46319@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: testing PKGNG X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:20:07 -0000 On 09/13/2011 23:16, Michel Talon wrote: > Sergio wrote: > >> I moved all my servers (about 40) to the pkgng (new generation) >> package/port >> system, and I can say that it is amazing... it is not yet finish, and >> have some >> minor "issues", but works very well, and is lightning fast.. >> >> It is almost the same as "pacman" (from Archlinux).. you build a >> "repository" and install packages from that repository. when you >> update the repository, the other servers can do an "upgrade".. >> you do not have to have the ports tree in each server, and >> you build the ports only on the master server.... >> >> in the master server, there is a full gnome2 (with 842 dependencies) >> that install right on the shelf with only one command: pkg install >> gnome2 >> now I have a full functional server runing gnome, libreoffice, inkscape >> hplip, cups printing, gdm... in about 30 minutes from internet.... > > I am extremely interested by what you are saying here. Do you mean that > you can find somewhere precompiled packages that you can install in 30mn > or that you use packages compiled on a master server? Of course the > difference is that if you have just one machine in the basement instead > of a server farm, the point of view is not the same ... There are no official mirrors with pkgng packages yet. So I assume he built his packages then deployed them with pkgng. > > By the way if you mention that pkgng shares something to some penguinist > system, beware it will be villified by some guardians of the orthodoxy > who are quite vocal. Anyways if it is indeed fast it will make a happy > difference with the present pkg-* tools. It is indeed inspired by the competition ;p