State of Packages

[doug at safeport.com]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Mark Blackman wrote:

> On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, doug at safeport.com wrote:
>>> Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored.
>>
>> Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again.
>> They will come back.
>
>
> For those who might be interested in an interim solution, we've set up
> an unofficial but public pkgng format repository at
>
> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng
>
> To use these packages, just set your PACKAGESITE variable in
> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf like so,
>
> PACKAGESITE	 : http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest
>
> These have FreeBSD 8, 9 and 10, i386 and amd64 kernel pkgng format packages
> for the whole ports tree, build failures notwithstanding.
>
> You'll have to explicitly make the decision to trust or not these
> builds, of course, but all are welcome to use them until the official
> ones are available.

Thank you

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