Ports or packages?

[Stan Gammons]

On Aug 11, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Stan Gammons <s_gammons at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> I know the binary packages were taken down after the security incident a
>> while back. Are many/any binary packages available now or does one still
>> have to build most everything from ports?  If binary packages are available
>> now, what is the URL to the repository?
>> 
>> Stan
>> _______________________________________________
> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> 


Assuming one has converted to the new packagement tool and added WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf, one could use the links for packagesite in pkg.conf to install binary packages with pkg?  Can one have multiple packagesite statements in pkg.conf?

I see the repositories don't have the latest versions, so portupgrade or portmaster would be needed to upgrade to the latest versions from ports?  If so, can one mix and match pkg and portupgrade or portmaster or is that asking for trouble?  i.e. use pkg to install packages and portupgrade or portmaster to upgrade packages.


Stan