Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:34:28 +0100 From: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: State of Packages Message-ID: <8F446809-CBE1-4AD6-8497-66B415890B0C@exonetric.com> In-Reply-To: <515DE0B0.5020905@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304041451170.50766@oceanpt.safeport.com> <515DE0B0.5020905@FreeBSD.org>
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On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, doug@safeport.com wrote: >> Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. > > Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. > They will come back. For those who might be interested in an interim solution, we've set up an unofficial but public pkgng format repository at http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng To use these packages, just set your PACKAGESITE variable in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf like so, PACKAGESITE : http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest These have FreeBSD 8, 9 and 10, i386 and amd64 kernel pkgng format packages for the whole ports tree, build failures notwithstanding. You'll have to explicitly make the decision to trust or not these builds, of course, but all are welcome to use them until the official ones are available. - Mark
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