Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:22:44 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng Message-ID: <5272D834.5030004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAOjFWZ5RF3gUGZZSVUJ_9=435C8YEJq_0yDUXBSDX1g6%2BRYGog@mail.gmail.com> References: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> <1383206755084-5856905.post@n5.nabble.com> <5272107D.2070301@gibfest.dk> <5272BAB0.3040302@freebsd.org> <5272C46E.2050105@FreeBSD.org> <CAOgwaMsN%2BLhAuL7JhwTFWEWY3AOU1n2hTHz%2BYbX2kPjx0xfVMA@mail.gmail.com> <CAOjFWZ5RF3gUGZZSVUJ_9=435C8YEJq_0yDUXBSDX1g6%2BRYGog@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --iFfg5NPfahTBGl0646jope2WQePdvX0Wx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/31/2013 4:54 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk < > m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> >> wrote: >> >> At present , the packages information and themselves are available fro= m , >> such as : >> >> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ >> >> It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the >> Internet such as >> >> >> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/ >> http://pkg.wolfpond.org/ >> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/ >> >> >> This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users >> because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see wh= at >> are the available packages there . >> >=20 > =E2=80=8BFrom the original message: > Mirrors you may use instead of the global > pkg.FreeBSD.org<http://pkg.freebsd.org/>; > : >=20 > pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.eu.freebsd.org/>; > pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-east.freebsd.org/>; > pkg.us-west.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-west.freebsd.org/>; >=20 >=20 > pkg.freebsd.org is, basically, an alias for the above (and any other > mirrors that come online) and the pkg(1) tool will pick a "local" mirro= r > based on the DNS response for pkg.freebsd.org. >=20 > However, you are free to manually enter any of the above mirrors into y= our > pkg.conf. >=20 > And, you are free to browse any of the above mirrors via HTTP in any we= b > browser. >=20 > It's not nearly as convenient as just browsing pkg.freebsd.org, but it'= s > still possible to do so. These are still SRV hosts as well. The real hosts can be found with dig SRV _http._tcp.HOST HOST being the host from above lists. >=20 >=20 >=20 --=20 Regards, Bryan Drewery --iFfg5NPfahTBGl0646jope2WQePdvX0Wx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSctg0AAoJEDXXcbtuRpfPmkAH/RKFMI6UKTZd0mbaqsZVkiLM PIGFoA1mkaUZiNPQjRjEyP5qX7ALxViCHIqFU7VgXEleY8uIpalyb1Sx8PwyQxA8 Bw16adqhgYkyWGnXF8Id15n6laZSsxpDSt6NNYSIVOMWmSxOlrrZbOR2Thj3xcrz 4fvAecB9VR5RO1rLMYSOL2/kj9lHkHYtWW9Fn2d7ImTWnh7Az62/ThfJOngLkqki BEKZQKV797EGhhmMryveWnyfz0m61GxMsoRVsxRT+6e3XMeE1DMf+Dc6xqV1W2Db FCYn6UfVFY9yIT8B3ZDWrXNi7HJKnYaDuSm1byceeTEateCMcCC10uKSD3SDnOQ= =S7Nm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --iFfg5NPfahTBGl0646jope2WQePdvX0Wx--
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