From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 20 09:16:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6EA122 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:16:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A6D94290B for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com ([178.78.126.226]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r8K9Gam4022241 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:16:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.8.3 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk r8K9Gam4022241 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1379668613; bh=dxItYlpWElqoUsDmgPj/PuTQekG6A16BwU+rSDlOQgY=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; z=Date:=20Fri,=2020=20Sep=202013=2010:16:35=20+0100|From:=20Matthew =20Seaman=20|To:=20freebsd-questi ons@freebsd.org|Subject:=20Re:=20PKGNG|References:=20|In-Reply-T o:=20; b=YjVVhIFKGCsGN/z96Pa/SjEQ9I2IqiJXhfvoeJSGWaNoWGX2Ev1+nm8pIyuC2TyW2 oQmRAxK2wXsqNdSQUs8lc3ozaaARmH1/37ppfd+J3TwdBCOtLuSt56iA9BDm/ln4/6 +ZaaiPazfrVaK9Q6Rpn9kY11LwXF8f3xJOGspFgI= X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host [178.78.126.226] claimed to be ox-dell39.ox.adestra.com Message-ID: <523C1273.6040504@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:16:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130828 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKGNG References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DCC_CHECK, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk 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: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 09:16:58 -0000 On 09/20/13 05:05, Ethan W. House wrote: > What is the status of pkgng. The handbook says to use it but else were it > says that the repos are empty due to a security incident last November. > > Are there beta repos hidden somewhere that can be used? The reason I ask is > I want to install packages like Gimp and LibreOffice which will take a > fortnight on my laptop to compile. I tried pkg_add but that broke > everything when I updated to 9.2. pkgng is in rude health. It's certainly usable -- you can enable it on your systems and use it with the ports (portmaster, portupgrade style) or you can try various repos which are available online. The systems that will be the official FreeBSD pkg repo are on-line and available for testing with: % cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pkg-test.conf --- pkg-test: URL: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest ENABLED: YES MIRROR_TYPE: SRV This doesn't have package signatures yet, but otherwise it's pretty much what will be the official pkg repository for 10.0-RELEASE. There are other publicly available pkg repos, such as the one provided by Exonetric which is at http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest Cheers, Matthew