Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Freddie Cash]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
>
> At present , the packages information and themselves are available from ,
> such as :
>
> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
>
> It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the
> Internet such as
>
>
> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/
> http://pkg.wolfpond.org/
> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/
>
>
> This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users
> because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see what
> are the available packages there .
>

​From the original message:
Mirrors you may use instead of the global
pkg.FreeBSD.org<http://pkg.freebsd.org/>
:

    pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.eu.freebsd.org/>
    pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-east.freebsd.org/>
    pkg.us-west.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-west.freebsd.org/>


pkg.freebsd.org is, basically, an alias for the above (and any other
mirrors that come online) and the pkg(1) tool will pick a "local" mirror
based on the DNS response for pkg.freebsd.org.

However, you are free to manually enter any of the above mirrors into your
pkg.conf.

And, you are free to browse any of the above mirrors via HTTP in any web
browser.

It's not nearly as convenient as just browsing pkg.freebsd.org, but it's
still possible to do so.



-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com