Re: access to FreeBSD package problem

In reply to: Alpaslan_KOCABAŞ : "Re: access to FreeBSD package problem"
Go to: [ bottom of page ] [ top of archives ] [ this month ]

From: Christian Kujau <lists_at_nerdbynature.de>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 13:12:33 UTC

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, Alpaslan KOCABAŞ wrote:
> > 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.

An alternative might be:

$ curl -L https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/latest/packagesite.pkg | \ 
    xz -dc | tar -xf - packagesite.yaml

$ jq -r '.path' < packagesite.yaml | sort | head -3
All/0ad-0.0.26_5.pkg
All/0verkill-0.16_2.pkg
All/1password-client-1.12.4.pkg

C.
-- 
BOFH excuse #408:

Computers under water due to SYN flooding.