no 9.1-release packages?

Mark Blackman mark at exonetric.com
Sat Mar 9 16:47:26 UTC 2013


On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:52, Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages.
> This however does not work as there is no directory "packages-9.1-release" on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this?
> 

If you're prepared to move to pkgng for binary packages, 

https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng

There's an unofficial pkgng format repository of binary packages available

After installing pkgng (from ports), then edit your /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf to use
this line.

PACKAGESITE	    : http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest

- Mark
 


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