docs/182202: Handbook pkgng description doesn't mention there are no repos

Bryan Drewery bryan at shatow.net
Wed Sep 18 21:30:01 UTC 2013


The following reply was made to PR docs/182202; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bryan Drewery <bryan at shatow.net>
To: Scott Robbins <scottro11 at gmail.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/182202: Handbook pkgng description doesn't mention there
 are no repos
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:14:40 -0500

 Switch to pkgng does not require there to be repositories. It works in
 ports just fine, as a replacement for the old tools. The ability to
 upgrade/install from a remote repository is not ready yet, but pkgng
 is ready to switch to today, while still using portmaster/portupgrade.


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