Re: access to FreeBSD package problem

From: Ian Smith <smithi_at_nimnet.asn.au>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:54:00 UTC 
On 11 January 2023 1:36:30 am AEDT, "Alpaslan KOCABAŞ" <alpaslan.kocabas@kanca.com.tr> wrote:
 > 
 > On 10.01.2023 16:17, Mel Pilgrim wrote:
 > > On 2023-01-10 2:22, Alpaslan KOCABAŞ wrote:
 > >> When I try to access to FreeBSD package 
 > >> (pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/All/ ), I'm getting a
 > '403 
 > >> Forbidden' warning
 > >
 > > Directly listing is disabled because it contains >32,000 pkgs. Such
 > a 
 > > large listing produces significant load and that function isn't
 > needed 
 > > for the repo to work.  Use pkg search/fetch to access it instead.
 > 
 > 
 > Оk. I understood. Thanks for the clarification.

I also understand those who would like to be able to browse through packages looking for interesting things to try.

I'm testing patches for bsdconfig(8) that make it work once again on pkg.freebsd.org, as well as with the packages on distribution DVDs starting with 12.4-RELEASE.  These should work with 13.1 as well.

If anyone is interested to help with testing and/or documenting these, please contact me off-list.

Here, painfully stripped of the mess that vt(4) makes of cut n pasting from dialog(1) screens, is last night's test, jusf before adding 1 package.

cheers, Ian

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bsdconfig packages

                    Package Selection
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   > Review           Review/perform pending actions
   All                32343 packages; 576 installed; 1 selected
   accessibility      51 packages
    afterstep         20 packages
    arabic            8 packages
    archivers         310 packages; 10 installed
    astro             149 packages; 1 installed; 1 selected
    audio             942 packages; 15 installed
   benchmarks         121 packages; 1 installed
    biology           247 packages
   cad                162 packages
    chinese           136 packages
    comms             233 packages
    converters        231 packages
   databases          1231 packages; 1 installed
    deskutils         293 packages
    devel             8698 packages; 28 installed
    dns               270 packages
    docs              22 packages
   editors            398 packages; 2 installed
    education         77 packages
    elisp             383 packages
    emulators         207 packages; 1 installed
    enlightenment     14 packages
   finance            166 packages
      (+)                                   25%
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