testing PKGNG

[Julien Laffaye]

On 09/13/2011 23:16, Michel Talon wrote:
> Sergio wrote:
>
>> I moved all my servers (about 40) to the pkgng (new generation)
>> package/port
>> system, and I can say that it is amazing... it is not yet finish, and
>> have some
>> minor "issues", but works very well, and is lightning fast..
>>
>> It is almost the same as "pacman"  (from Archlinux)..  you build a
>> "repository"  and install packages from that repository. when you
>> update the repository, the other servers can do an "upgrade"..
>> you do not have to have the ports tree in each server, and
>> you build the ports only on the master server....
>>
>> in the master server, there is a full gnome2 (with 842 dependencies)
>> that install right on the shelf with only one command: pkg install
>> gnome2
>> now I have a full functional server runing gnome, libreoffice, inkscape
>> hplip, cups printing, gdm...  in about 30 minutes from internet....
>
> I am extremely interested by what you are saying here. Do you mean that
> you can find somewhere precompiled packages that you can install in 30mn
> or that you use packages compiled on a master server? Of course the
> difference is that if you have just one machine in the basement instead
> of a server farm, the point of view is not the same ...

There are no official mirrors with pkgng packages yet. So I assume he 
built his packages then deployed them with pkgng.

>
> By the way if you mention that pkgng shares something to some penguinist
> system, beware it will be villified by some guardians of the orthodoxy
> who are quite vocal. Anyways if it is indeed fast it will make a happy
> difference with the present pkg-* tools.

It is indeed inspired by the competition ;p