On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk < m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org> > wrote: > > At present , the packages information and themselves are available from , > such as : > > ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ > > It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the > Internet such as > > > http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/ > http://pkg.wolfpond.org/ > http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/ > > > This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users > because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see what > are the available packages there . > ​From the original message: Mirrors you may use instead of the global pkg.FreeBSD.org<http://pkg.freebsd.org/> : pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.eu.freebsd.org/> pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-east.freebsd.org/> pkg.us-west.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-west.freebsd.org/> pkg.freebsd.org is, basically, an alias for the above (and any other mirrors that come online) and the pkg(1) tool will pick a "local" mirror based on the DNS response for pkg.freebsd.org. However, you are free to manually enter any of the above mirrors into your pkg.conf. And, you are free to browse any of the above mirrors via HTTP in any web browser. It's not nearly as convenient as just browsing pkg.freebsd.org, but it's still possible to do so. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
