I also received the solicitation… I have no knowledge (good or bad) regarding this repository.
-Keith. On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > I received the following email message that does not appear to be posted to > the SL list. Is anyone familiar with the repository mentioned below and the > legitimacy thereof? > > Yasha Karant > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Hi users of EL6 based distributions, > > I'm pleased to announce a new alternative binary package repository > for EL6 x86_64. The aim is to provide a supplemental set of packages > which may contain software not included in your base system. > > These packages are based on pkgsrc, a cross-platform package manager. > > In this initial release there are 13,152 packages available. For now > I am specifically targetting EL6/x86_64 (the build host is CentOS 6.5) > to see what kind of interest in this. If there is reasonable interest > I can produce packages for other targets based on popularity. > > To install, download and unpack the bootstrap kit: > > $ curl -s > http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Linux/bootstrap/bootstrap-2014Q2-el6-x86_64.tar.gz > | sudo tar -zxpf - -C / > > Packages are self-contained under the /usr/pkg prefix: > > $ PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/pkg/bin > $ MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/pkg/man > > Included is the "pkgin" binary package manager, which has been > designed to operate similar to yum/apt-get: > > # Fetch latest database > $ sudo pkgin update > > # Search for a package > $ pkgin search tmux > > # Install it > $ sudo pkgin install tmux > > # See what is available > $ pkgin avail | less > > Further details and similar binary package sets for SmartOS/illumos > and OSX can be found here: > > http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ > > Feedback is highly appreciated! Let me know if there is anything we > can do to improve these packages, or if they are unwelcome. You can > email me or @jperkin, or alternatively get involved in the pkgsrc > community - our aim is to provide cross-platform packages for over 20 > different operating systems from the same source tree. > > Thanks, > > -- > Jonathan Perkin - Joyent, Inc. - www.joyent.com
