Ports or packages?

Janky Jay jankyj at unfs.us
Mon Aug 12 00:35:05 UTC 2013


Hello,

On 08/11/2013 06:24 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
>> m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know the binary packages were taken down after the security incident a
>>>> while back. Are many/any binary packages available now or does one still
>>>> have to build most everything from ports?  If binary packages are
>> available
>>>> now, what is the URL to the repository?
>>>>
>>>> Stan
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
>>> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
>>> ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
>>>
>>
>>
>> Assuming one has converted to the new packagement tool and added
>> WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf, one could use the links for packagesite
>> in pkg.conf to install binary packages with pkg?  Can one have multiple
>> packagesite statements in pkg.conf?
>>
>> I see the repositories don't have the latest versions, so portupgrade or
>> portmaster would be needed to upgrade to the latest versions from ports?
>>  If so, can one mix and match pkg and portupgrade or portmaster or is that
>> asking for trouble?  i.e. use pkg to install packages and portupgrade or
>> portmaster to upgrade packages.
>>
>>
>> Stan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> The above links are NOT containing  new pkgng kind packages yet .
> 
> For pkgng compatible packages , you may see the following pages :
> 
> http://www.exonetric.com/
> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/
> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/freebsd%3A10%3Ax86%3A64/2013-02-09/All/
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you very much .
> 
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk

	I +1 this. Also, regarding your question about mixing packages (PNGNG)
and ports is just fine. I use PKGNG and portmaster all the time and they
work fine together. I can't speak for portupgrade, though.

Regards,
Janky Jay, III



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