On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Lars Engels <lars.eng...@0x20.net> wrote: > 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.
You will never have to know that syntax unless you're one of the few that are behind a very restrictive firewall/proxy. The pkg client does all this SRV record magic internally to find out a suitable mirror. _______________________________________________ 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"
