Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

Thu Oct 31 21:25:44 UTC 2013

Same result, neither pkg+http:// nor http+pkg:// worked with proxy server.

Eric

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10/31/2013 4:06 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > ... I still think the SRV record stuff is a bad idea.
> >
> > Well, I think it's a great idea - because I plan on supporting it in
> > the next HTTP thing I write - but not having an A record is going to
> > continue to bite things.
>
> I don't like it either, it's not up to portmgr.
>
> >
> > Also, http+pkg:// isn't a defined protocol either and some strict
> > proxies may actually reject it. You should go back to the http://
> > protocol.
>
> It's not real. It's a client-side thing only. The "pkg+" is stripped
> away before the fetch. It's only intended to make people realize they
> can't just drop it into firefox and hit enter.
>
> 1.2 adds support for it which is coming soon, but it doesn't really
> change much.
>
> >
> >
> > -adrian
> >
> > (with his HTTP hat on..)
> >
> >
> > On 31 October 2013 14:04, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:
> >>
> > On 2013-10-31 16:47, Eric Camachat wrote:
> >>>> It doesn't work with our (microsoft) proxy server, see below.
> >>>>
> >>>> root at basay:/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos # pkg update -f
> >>>> Updating repository catalogue
> >>>> pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/digests.txz:
> Service
> >>>> Unavailable
> >>>> pkg: No digest falling back on legacy catalog format
> >>>> pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:x86:64/latest/repo.txz:
> Service
> >>>> Unavailable
> >>>> root at basay:/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos #
> >>>>
> >>>> Eric
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> We are pleased to announce that official binary packages are now
> >>>>> available for pkg, the next generation package management tool for
> > FreeBSD.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Pkg allows you to either use ports with portmaster/portupgrade or to
> >>>>> have binary remote packages without ports.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We have binary packages available for i386 and amd64 on
> >>>>> 8.3,8.4,9.1,9.2,10.0 and 11 (head).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Pkg will be the default starting in FreeBSD 10.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The pkg_install suite of tools pkg_create(1), pkg_add(1), and
> >>>>> pkg_info(1) (which ports also use), are deprecated and will be
> >>>>> discontinued in roughly 6 months. A communication regarding the
> >>>>> deprecation of the pkg_install suite of tools will be sent
> separately in
> >>>>> the future.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If you are currently not using pkg and wish to, run the following as
> >>>>> root. Be sure not to add WITH_PKGNG=yes to your make.conf until after
> >>>>> pkg is installed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make install clean
> >>>>>   # echo WITH_PKGNG=yes >> /etc/make.conf
> >>>>>   # pkg2ng
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You can now either continue to use ports with
> portmaster/portupgrade, as
> >>>>> before or switch to using binary packages only.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> To use binary packages:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1. Ensure your pkg(8) is up-to-date. 'pkg -v' should say at least
> >>>>>    1.1.4_8. If it does not, first upgrade from ports.
> >>>>> 2. Remove any repository-specific configuration from
> >>>>>    /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, such as PACKAGESITE, MIRROR_TYPE, PUBKEY.
> >>>>>    If this leaves your pkg.conf empty, just remove it.
> >>>>> 3. mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
> >>>>> 4. Create the file /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf with:
> >>>>> FreeBSD: {
> >>>>>   url: "http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
> >>>>>   mirror_type: "srv",
> >>>>>   enabled: "yes"
> >>>>> }
> >>>>>
> >>>>> * Note that pkg.FreeBSD.org does not have a browsable web page on
> it and
> >>>>> does not have a DNS A record. This is intended as it is an SRV host.
> >>>>> pkg(8) knows how to properly use it. You can use 'pkg search' to
> browse
> >>>>> the available packages in the repository.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mirrors you may use instead of the global pkg.FreeBSD.org:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org
> >>>>>     pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org
> >>>>>     pkg.us-west.FreeBSD.org
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Your system is now ready to use packages!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Refer to the handbook section on pkgng for usage at
> >>>>>
> >
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
> >>>>> .
> >>>>> Also see 'man pkg' for examples or 'pkg help'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Packages are built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection
> every
> >>>>> Wednesday morning 01:00 UTC. They typically will be available in the
> >>>>> repository after a few days.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Pkg 1.2 will be released in the coming month which will bring many
> >>>>> improvements including officially signed packages. FreeBSD 10's pkg
> >>>>> bootstrap now also supports signed pkg(8) installation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> Bryan Drewery
> >>>>> on behalf of portmgr@
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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> > I am guessing the proxy passes the full HTTP request, without doing the
> > SRV lookup, and then can't find the A record.
> >
> > I wonder if the http+pkg:// protocol can solve this, likely will require
> > a patch to fetch to implement the logic to do the dns lookup and make
> > the proxies request for the real hostname
> >
> >>
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>
> --
> Regards,
> Bryan Drewery
>
>