I have no experience with it on Linux, but neither Joyent nor pkgsrc are new to me on illumos.
You should probably expect things to work well and correctly after a fashion, though TBH I'd prefer it if the pkgsrc "packages" were playing in the RPM sandbox, but that's an implementation detail more than a trust question. :) - Rich On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Keith Chadwick <chadw...@fnal.gov> wrote: > 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