testing PKGNG...

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:53:20PM -0300, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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....
> 
> 
> Sergio...
> 

Wahou, Thanks for that great feedback :)
Finally something interesting on that list...

Nice to hear and really happy that pkgng while still be highly experimental
works so good on your case.

Now that you have become our larger tester, feedback are really welcome: 
 - bug reports,
 - features resquest,
 - documentation :D

I may recommand you to well test your upgrades before deploying them. Upgrade
process has to be refactor because it works but have some rough edges. I use
exclusively pkgng on my boxes (only 4 sorry :)) for weeks now without major
problem that can't be fixed.

We are also interested in the procedures, I mean the way you build the packages
and the way you deploy them, I may have some things to point you to that can
help you managing your servers using pkgng :)

http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/pkgng
https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng
irc://#pkgng@freenode

regards,
Bapt
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