Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Lars Engels]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 4:54 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
> > m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> At present , the packages information and themselves are available from ,
> >> such as :
> >>
> >> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
> >>
> >> It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the
> >> Internet such as
> >>
> >>
> >> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/
> >> http://pkg.wolfpond.org/
> >> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/
> >>
> >>
> >> This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users
> >> because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see what
> >> are the available packages there .
> >>
> > 
> > ???From the original message:
> > Mirrors you may use instead of the global
> > pkg.FreeBSD.org<http://pkg.freebsd.org/>
> > :
> > 
> >     pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.eu.freebsd.org/>
> >     pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-east.freebsd.org/>
> >     pkg.us-west.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-west.freebsd.org/>
> > 
> > 
> > pkg.freebsd.org is, basically, an alias for the above (and any other
> > mirrors that come online) and the pkg(1) tool will pick a "local" mirror
> > based on the DNS response for pkg.freebsd.org.
> > 
> > However, you are free to manually enter any of the above mirrors into your
> > pkg.conf.
> > 
> > And, you are free to browse any of the above mirrors via HTTP in any web
> > browser.
> > 
> > It's not nearly as convenient as just browsing pkg.freebsd.org, but it's
> > still possible to do so.
> 
> These are still SRV hosts as well. The real hosts can be found with
> 
> dig SRV _http._tcp.HOST HOST being the host from above lists.
> 

Please add this to pkg.conf(5) as this it not intuitive and the syntax
is a bit cumbersome.
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