[HEADSUP] No more pkg_install on HEAD by default

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 15 06:38:23 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 06:51:00PM -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> 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.

Yes pkgng do support proxies, because libfetch do support them.

pkgng also support ssh://

regards,
Bapt
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