Ports or packages?

[Anton Afanasyev]

Speaking of using portmaster with PKGNG, any idea if PKGNG support for the
"--packages-build" portmaster option is in the works somewhere? I couldn't
find anything, but maybe I didn't look hard enough.

Thanks,
Anton


On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Janky Jay <jankyj at unfs.us> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On 08/11/2013 06:24 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Aug 11, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
> >> m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I know the binary packages were taken down after the security
> incident a
> >>>> while back. Are many/any binary packages available now or does one
> still
> >>>> have to build most everything from ports?  If binary packages are
> >> available
> >>>> now, what is the URL to the repository?
> >>>>
> >>>> Stan
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
> >>>
> >>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> >>> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> >>> ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Assuming one has converted to the new packagement tool and added
> >> WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf, one could use the links for
> packagesite
> >> in pkg.conf to install binary packages with pkg?  Can one have multiple
> >> packagesite statements in pkg.conf?
> >>
> >> I see the repositories don't have the latest versions, so portupgrade or
> >> portmaster would be needed to upgrade to the latest versions from ports?
> >>  If so, can one mix and match pkg and portupgrade or portmaster or is
> that
> >> asking for trouble?  i.e. use pkg to install packages and portupgrade or
> >> portmaster to upgrade packages.
> >>
> >>
> >> Stan
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The above links are NOT containing  new pkgng kind packages yet .
> >
> > For pkgng compatible packages , you may see the following pages :
> >
> > http://www.exonetric.com/
> > http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/
> >
> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/freebsd%3A10%3Ax86%3A64/2013-02-09/All/
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much .
> >
> > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
>
>         I +1 this. Also, regarding your question about mixing packages
> (PNGNG)
> and ports is just fine. I use PKGNG and portmaster all the time and they
> work fine together. I can't speak for portupgrade, though.
>
> Regards,
> Janky Jay, III
>
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