pkg: fetching binary packages to a local dumpdir for a different ABI

[Miroslav Lachman]

Matthew Seaman wrote on 03/11/2016 12:15:
> On 03/11/16 10:00, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> O. Hartmann wrote on 03/11/2016 10:42:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> The ABI is also unclear. Some documents say it is freebsd:10:x86:64
>>> (which
>>> looks more the Intel/Linux dominated terminology) and also this one is
>>> considered correct: FreeBSD:10:amd64 (looks more FreeBSD'ish). It is
>>> said that
>>> the variable ABI is derived from "sh" - how?
>>
>> It is freebsd:10:x86:64. You can look at http://pkg.freebsd.org/
>> The full URL is http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/
>
> Actually, ${ABI} *used* to be freebsd:10:x86:64.  It changed to
> FreeBSD:10:amd64 quite some time and numerous releases of pkg(8) ago now.

It's strange that it is not listed at mirror page 
http://pkg.freebsd.org/ There are only old ABI formats.

Miroslav Lachman