On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:40:52AM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > Looks great! Thanks as always for the work. I do have one question (below). > > On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:21 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > - Remove support for PACKAGESITE > > There are two cases where I still define PACKAGESITE in the environment, > specifically when building new jails or VM images. Can you suggest > alternatives? > > 1. Installing/bootstrapping the latest pkg from a specific source. Often I > build in an environment that is firewalled from the Internet at large but I > have a local repo. (And it's nice to know exactly what version with which > options I'm installing.)
What is done in the FreeBSD DVD is creatign a conf files manually:
local: {
url: "http://where";
}
and env REPOS_DIR=/path/to/the/directory/containing/the/file pkg ...
>
> 2. Installing a package that includes a repo file for my local custom repo.
> This is a chicken-and-egg problem for which PACKAGESITE was a nice solution
> since there's no risk of a stale repo file being left behind--either the
> package is installed (with the correct/current repo file) or it isn't.
same as above or if you already have pkg bootstrapped you can do pkg add
http://...../yourpkg.txz
which makes me see that 1.3.0.a1 has lost pkg add|install http://... which we
need to fix for alpha2
Thanks for the first bug report. :)
regards,
Bapt
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