PKGNG

[Ethan W. House]

Thanks, that was exactly the information I was looking for.

Ethan House


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Matthew Seaman <
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On 09/20/13 05:05, Ethan W. House wrote:
> > What is the status of pkgng. The handbook says to use it but else were it
> > says that the repos are empty due to a security incident last November.
> >
> > Are there beta repos hidden somewhere that can be used? The reason I ask
> is
> > I want to install packages like Gimp and LibreOffice which will take a
> > fortnight on my laptop to compile. I tried pkg_add but that broke
> > everything when I updated to 9.2.
>
> pkgng is in rude health.  It's certainly usable -- you can enable it on
> your systems and use it with the ports (portmaster, portupgrade style)
> or you can try various repos which are available online.
>
> The systems that will be the official FreeBSD pkg repo are on-line and
> available for testing with:
>
> % cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pkg-test.conf
> ---
> pkg-test:
>   URL: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest
>   ENABLED: YES
>   MIRROR_TYPE: SRV
>
>
> This doesn't have package signatures yet, but otherwise it's pretty much
> what will be the official pkg repository for 10.0-RELEASE.
>
> There are other publicly available pkg repos, such as the one provided
> by Exonetric which is at
>
>     http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest
>
>         Cheers,
>
>         Matthew
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