From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 6 20:25:48 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68E10A68 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:25:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x22b.google.com (mail-ia0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::22b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E121EF8 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 2013 20:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f171.google.com with SMTP id z13so4123498iaz.2 for ; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A9mFpJVPtQBzWTiaDjm+cbLdJFvyCOYkVgtZy8G+zvY=; b=Qbn194uHrZwTeeI/GEdY54BlfGwHAX0pIGJrDnGbciLeJOwK4Qpq3BpkiAtXbL6JpH k/7HMiprI+kHV7iOihtzVOKOMPneIfswBIXuTPum/p0wDw45mD6oAJ3cSpFt645FYfCK uGyYTj/oyNCvqcjFjJIINeOywoRm/iC86iDuzFrvjA3g+Oy//1nTs0SCiEUqc29QWQYo 0jEWlXpiVfcMB5caRTQQvViDzakER4Lveh8soUDOjFjOrV8GMfTlxpxTW/wVjuhDz/RD IRqXpyxcBPj8JLuRSGKaJkpYgoVPsRxzfHvEPa8TtYyqHWj63vYxZMINIk9CDzTV7nwZ AhyQ== X-Received: by 10.50.135.105 with SMTP id pr9mr2886033igb.6.1365279947866; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.34] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id xd4sm8990911igb.3.2013.04.06.13.25.46 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 06 Apr 2013 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <516084C6.5070504@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Packages References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:25:48 -0000 On 4/5/2013 7:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: > >> 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 :) > > Prebuilt packages are on the way apparently, but I have made my own > repository anyway for the 600-odd packages which I and my users need - > thus I compile from ports once only (all are 9.1-RELEASE x86_64). > > It works well, and is not difficult. > I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the first cd-r I used. The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it hasn't been done yet. It's been almost five months. I used the repository, but I'm working on my own now that I have plenty of ram to do it. In the time since then, every FreeBSD machine could have updated from source the base and all packages. The ports tree is still updated, the source tree is still updated, so both should be presumed to be safe. Recently the FreeBSD website had some downtime from using -CURRENT, and apache hasn't been taken offline for five months, and aren't those two things all you really need to distribute ports?