[HEADSUP] No more pkg_install on HEAD by default

Mark Felder feld at feld.me
Sat Jul 13 23:51:02 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013, at 13:54, Teske, Devin wrote:
> 
> 
> If FTP access (or any of the other remote access methods) are going away
> for HEAD pkg access, I'll need to know so I can make the appropriate
> changes in the HEAD branch of bsdconfig.
>

It's simpler than you think. The new pkg uses libfetch. You can have
your PACAKGESITE be file:// ftp:// http:// https:// ... 

I do suspect that HTTP_PROXY support is probably not available as I
recall seeing a post where someone was asking about that getting
implemented for fetch. I'll have to research that again, though.


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