Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:42:48 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: State of pkgng? Message-ID: <51266AA8.9020605@bluerosetech.com> In-Reply-To: <20130221030858.GA45907@ozzmosis.com> References: <51257C50.7000001@bluerosetech.com> <20130221030858.GA45907@ozzmosis.com>
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On 2013-02-20 19:08, andrew clarke wrote: > On Wed 2013-02-20 17:45:52 UTC-0800, Darren Pilgrim (list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com) wrote: > >> Reading the pkgng page on the wiki: >> >> "As a consequence of the security incident on 11th November 2012, for >> the time being pre-compiled packages for pkgng are not available from >> any official FreeBSD repository. [...] Target dates for when service may >> be resumed have not been released." >> >> Is that still the case? Is pkgng presently a non-starter? > > Just to be clear, pkgng is not broken. You can still use it with the > Ports tree or use it to install locally-built packages. I wasn't clear on that point. Thanks. No, pkgng integrates perfectly with Ports. I have WITH_PKGNG=yes on almost all of my systems. I was following up about the package repo, which is still empty. I do like the speed increase of pkg-version over pkg_version. What can the lowly sysadmin do to speed up getting the pkgng package repo?
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