Thanks, that was exactly the information I was looking for. Ethan House
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > 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" > _______________________________________________ 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"