Getting Started with pkgng

[Alexander Oblovatniy]

Hello!

I'm reading 5.5.1. Getting Started with
pkgng<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html> of
the handbook and I'm using fresh installation of FreeBSD-9.2-RELEASE-i386.

I've installed pkg port 1.1.4 from /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg and have run
pkg2ng.

It is mentioned in the handbook, that adding WITH_PKGNG is needed to be
added to /etc/make.conf. It may turn out that by default this file does not
exist, so it must be created manually or be copied from
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf or elsewhere.

Same thing about /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf. It may turn out that by default
there is /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample only. So, pkg could not
find pkg.conf with PACKAGESITE variable, prints 'Updating repository
catalogue' and bails out silently without telling any reason of such
behaviour.
Moreover, maybe it will be good to mention about pkgng
wiki<https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng>.
After running 'pkg update' and 'pkg install curl' (as it is shown in the
example), pkg proposed to update from 1.1.4 to 1.2.1. As I can see, config
format in pkg 1.2 has changed. And pkg 1.2.1 does not like empty pkg.conf
file, while it is fixed in 1.2.2.

And the last, there is no pkg.freebsd.org, as it is provided by default in
pkg.conf. As I know, this repo was wiped out. There is
pkgbeta.freebsd.orgnow and some repo at pc-bsd for amd64.

Maybe something of this is worth mentioning in the docs. Thanks for
attention!