Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 12:07:05 -0700 From: "Ethan W. House" <ehouse@csh.rit.edu> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKGNG Message-ID: <CAFRryZhjibQrk96DujNZYQoC7DZT7zEE5Kfot=U3QiRcij%2B6FA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <523C1273.6040504@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAFRryZgme_qi5e3exjoDFkxAnEvd%2BySJ9w0khP6esMRC-QOaGA@mail.gmail.com> <523C1273.6040504@infracaninophile.co.uk>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Thanks, that was exactly the information I was looking for. Ethan House On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAFRryZhjibQrk96DujNZYQoC7DZT7zEE5Kfot=U3QiRcij%2B6FA>