State of pkgng?

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Thu Feb 21 02:26:34 UTC 2013


Probably, the repository is pkgbeta.freebsd.org currently.
You just type `pkg` before installing pkg from ports pkg bootstrap 
runs.
If you install pkg in this way, 'pkgbeta.freebsd.org' is written in 
pkg.conf .

2013-02-21 10:45 に Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> Setting up a new server tonight, decided to do it up with pkgng from 
> the start:
> 
> 1. portsnapped a tree
> 2. installed pkg just fine from ports
> 3. added WITH_PKGNG=yes to /etc/make.conf
> 4. cp /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
> 
> Then it broke:
> 
> # pkg update
> Updating repository catalogue
> pkg: http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest/repo.txz: No 
> address record
> 
> Reading the pkgng page on the wiki:
> 
> "As a consequence of the security incident on 11th November 2012, for
> the time being pre-compiled packages for pkgng are not available from
> any official FreeBSD repository. [...] Target dates for when service
> may be resumed have not been released."
> 
> Is that still the case?  Is pkgng presently a non-starter?
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