pkgng woes

[Matthew Pounsett]

On 2014-01-07, at 17:25 , Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>> I am getting warnings about the use of PACKAGESITE in the default config, but it works.  
> 
> That's because you're using some out of date settings.  What you need is
> the following:
> 
>  1) /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf -- you only need this to override global
> settings.  Most people should *remove* this file.  If you do keep it, do
> not define packagesite in here.

I didn't.  As I noted, I'm using the one supplied on a pristine 9.2-RELEASE system.

> 
>  2) Instead, you need a repository specific config file.  This is the
> default config for using pkg.freebsd.org (see:
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf?view=markup) --
> 
> FreeBSD: {
>  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>  mirror_type: "srv",
>  signature_type: "fingerprints",
>  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>  enabled: yes
> }
> 
> Save that as /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> 
>  3) You also need the package signing keys from here:
> 
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/keys/pkg/trusted/pkg.freebsd.org.2013102301?revision=257344&view=markup
> 
> If you want to set up your own repo, then read pkg.conf(5), which
> describes the pre-repo config files too.

If the default pkg.conf isn't a good one, it should be replaced by something that is, and the docs in the handbook should be updated to include instructions for setting it up.

Thanks.