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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2013 21:00:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:      doug@safeport.com
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: State of Packages
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304041701470.50766@oceanpt.safeport.com>
In-Reply-To: <8F446809-CBE1-4AD6-8497-66B415890B0C@exonetric.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1304041451170.50766@oceanpt.safeport.com> <515DE0B0.5020905@FreeBSD.org> <8F446809-CBE1-4AD6-8497-66B415890B0C@exonetric.com>

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On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Mark Blackman wrote:

> 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.

Thank you

_____
Douglas Denault
http://www.safeport.com
doug@safeport.com
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