On 09/20/13 05:05, Ethan W. House wrote: > What is the status of pkgng. The handbook says to use it but else were it > says that the repos are empty due to a security incident last November. > > Are there beta repos hidden somewhere that can be used? The reason I ask is > I want to install packages like Gimp and LibreOffice which will take a > fortnight on my laptop to compile. I tried pkg_add but that broke > everything when I updated to 9.2.
pkgng is in rude health. It's certainly usable -- you can enable it on your systems and use it with the ports (portmaster, portupgrade style) or you can try various repos which are available online. The systems that will be the official FreeBSD pkg repo are on-line and available for testing with: % cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/pkg-test.conf --- pkg-test: URL: http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest ENABLED: YES MIRROR_TYPE: SRV This doesn't have package signatures yet, but otherwise it's pretty much what will be the official pkg repository for 10.0-RELEASE. There are other publicly available pkg repos, such as the one provided by Exonetric which is at http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest Cheers, Matthew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"