Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:04:40 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" <jnagyjr1978@gmail.com> To: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which pkg repository with 9.1 Message-ID: <511076C8.9080207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <511074A0.5080306@gmail.com> References: <CAHUOmanfcMzFY=x3j2bMDMZLToZZ3Fds64CwC8-FpHes7qzF0A@mail.gmail.com> <CAHUOmak%2B27AK_zvy=Nf8d%2B4gD7GTjnaHOtTTiyjccvxU4KpVDQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHUOmakrGxq_ZXP-QOn8t_M6ZLG_kQVsUu_h2apLvzDB9BW%2Bmg@mail.gmail.com> <20130204190315.e7a64819c502038e2e2cd605@sohara.org> <51106FBB.30907@gmail.com> <511074A0.5080306@gmail.com>
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On 02/04/13 20:55, Joshua Isom wrote: > On 2/4/2013 8:34 PM, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: >> >> I really think a message needs to go out on the announce list (as well >> as ports@ and questions@, others as appropriate) about the fact there is >> no official pkg repo at the moment. I'm constantly seeing emails about >> this on this list. > > I changed to pkgng a couple weeks ago before realizing the "Security > Incident" was holding up binary ports. I used to install from source > most of the time, and updates seemed to be required to be from source. > But now it's just from source or nothing. I want pkgng to help deal > with some of the cruft that ends up occurring when installing ports that > have a lot of dependencies. > > What's really annoying to me is that a clean install cluster, so > presumably secure, could probably rebuild the whole ports tree in the > time it's taken to get something available. I've almost always built from source since I switched to FreeBSD (I sometimes, during the initial installation, used pkgs), it's longer but more reliable. -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://copyfree.org/licenses/owl/license.txt
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