State of pkgng?

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr jnagyjr1978 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 12:11:27 UTC 2013


On 02/20/13 21:08, andrew clarke wrote:
> 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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I use portmaster and pgkng together. Works out brilliantly.

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