The Handbook doc on "pkg" is badly out of date

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> It now seems like the normal workflow for people who want to use "pkg" is:
>
> - Hear about pkg
> - Find the information in the Handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
> - Install following those directions
> - Get mysterious messages while following those directions
> - Google the messages
> - Discover https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng
> - Make those changes
> - Carry on
>
> This seems kind of non-optimal. Can the Handbook be fixed to deal with the newer way "pkg" runs?

The mysterious messages were due to a a default configuration file which 
I think is not installed with the latest version of pkg.  I switched a 
9.2 system over to pkg a couple of days ago, and did what the Handbook 
says--really, just install pkg and run pkg2ng--and did not see those 
messages.