State of pkgng?
andrew clarke
mail at ozzmosis.com
Thu Feb 21 03:09:02 UTC 2013
On Wed 2013-02-20 17:45:52 UTC-0800, Darren Pilgrim (list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com) wrote:
> 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?
Just to be clear, pkgng is not broken. You can still use it with the
Ports tree or use it to install locally-built packages.
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