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Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored.

Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/

Name		 	Size 		Last Modified
File:MANIFEST 		1 KB 		12/04/12 10:10:00
File:base.txz 		58452 KB 	12/04/12 10:09:00
File:doc.txz 		1410 KB 	12/04/12 10:10:00
File:games.txz 		1092 KB 	12/04/12 10:10:00
File:kernel.txz 	56686 KB 	12/04/12 10:10:00
File:lib32.txz 		9516 KB 	12/04/12 10:10:00
File:ports.txz 		85867 KB 	12/04/12 10:10:00
File:src.txz 		94190 KB 	12/04/12 10:10:00

This pretty much invalidates 5.4 of the handbook.

My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in 
the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands 
during the download :)

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