Announce: Unofficial binary package builds for old releases

[Kevin Day]

On Jun 4, 2013, at 7:33 PM, Outback Dingo <outbackdingo at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Kevin Day <toasty at dragondata.com> wrote:

>  If there's anyone out there that would prefer pkgng instead of the old style packages, we might be able to get those going too. This is primarily for our own internal use so I don't want to add support for a ton of things if nobody is going to use this, so speak up if you want something!
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> What did i miss ??
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> setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages/91amd64-default/Latest/
> root at hostbsd:/ # pkg update
> Updating repository catalogue
> pkg: http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages/91amd64-default/Latest//repo.txz: Not Found


'pkg' is the next generation packaging (pkgng). These are the older style, usable with something like pkg_add. Example:

# setenv PACKAGESITE http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages/91amd64-default/Latest/
# pkg_add -r gmake
Fetching http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/FreeBSD-Unofficial-Packages/91amd64-default/Latest/gmake.tbz... Done.
#

We can build pkgng style packages if there's demand for it, but we're not using it internally right now so they aren't being built.

-- Kevin