On Jul 13, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Peter Wemm wrote: > On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Teske, Devin > <devin.te...@fisglobal.com> wrote: > >> So yes... I'm asking... in a HEAD world, what is the "officially supported" >> method of acquisition? > > This has been answered elsewhere, but to be absolutely clear: > > * 10.0 will ship with pkgng format packages. >
Ok. Respectfully not what I was inquiring about. > * pkgng will be configured to pull via http from project > infrastructure by default. > Thanks. Good to know. So when you don't define PACKAGESITE, it defaults to HTTP. How about rquery? What protocol does that use? and what does it talk to? > * The project will not be providing pkg_install format packages via > any method for 10.x. > Yes, I know this from previous announcements (not the topic at-hand; respectfully). > This doesn't stop third parties building and providing them > unofficially but my understanding is that they won't be on any project > operated freebsd.org sites. > Question: Where can I learn more about the actual format of what's in the new tarballs? This is going to be important not for bsdconfig, but $work (we have our own build platform; I'm going to have to rewrite it from mastering PLIST files to mastering YAML MANIFEST files and I want to know all the gritty details). -- Devin _____________ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
