On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 10/31/2013 4:54 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > > 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. > > These are still SRV hosts as well. The real hosts can be found with > > dig SRV _http._tcp.HOST HOST being the host from above lists. >
Please add this to pkg.conf(5) as this it not intuitive and the syntax is a bit cumbersome.
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