The Handbook doc on "pkg" is badly out of date

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jan 16 06:37:26 UTC 2014


On 15/01/2014 22:12, Allan Jude wrote:
> If you get the bootstrapped version of pkg on 9 that is still pkg 1.1.4
> or whatever, it installs a pkg.conf that is the 'old' format
> Upgrading to pkg 1.2 may cause extra warnings. If removing
> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf makes them go away, then that was the problem.

Now that pkg.freebsd.org is up and running, the bootstrap version should
be the latest available (pkg-1.2.5 at the moment).  The pkg package is
only special in that it has a 'LATEST_LINK'-style URL (without the
version number) for the benefit of /usr/sbin/pkg bootstrapping;
something that pkg(8) has otherwise eliminated the necessity for.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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