Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Bryan Drewery]

On 10/31/2013 4:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at freebsd.org
> <mailto:bdrewery at freebsd.org>> wrote:
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>     On 10/31/2013 3:16 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>     > On 10/31/13 1:10 AM, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote:
>     >> On 31-10-2013 09:05, Beeblebrox wrote:
>     >>> Brian:
>     >>> Please make sure your message gets posted on
>     >>> http://forums.freebsd.org/ as a
>     >>> general announcement.
>     >>> Also, the DNS records for http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/ does not seem
>     to have
>     >>> flushed-through yet (not working as of 08:00 GMT)
>     >>
>     >> Quoting from Brians excellent email:
>     >>
>     >> "Note that pkg.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.FreeBSD.org> does not have
>     a browsable web page on it
>     >> and does not have a DNS A record. This is intended as it is an SRV
>     >> host. pkg(8) knows how to properly use it."
>     >>
>     >
>     > That seems to raise the bar for people trying to check connectivity to
>     > it via ping/telnet.   Is that intentional?
>     >
>     > -Alfred
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>     You can find the real hosts with dig(1) or drill(1):
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>     # dig SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org <http://tcp.pkg.freebsd.org>
>     # drill SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org <http://tcp.pkg.freebsd.org>
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> 
>     --
>     Regards,
>     Bryan Drewery
> 
> 
> At present , the packages information and themselves are available from
> , such as :
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> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
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> It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the
> Internet such as
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> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/
> http://pkg.wolfpond.org/
> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/
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> 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 .

While I agree it is an inconvenience, why would you need to browse the
packages on some webpage without FreeBSD installed? Since packages are
installed from ports you can just load www.freshports.org to find what
you want. With it installed you can run 'pkg search'. Browsing a page
for downloadable packages is a bit outdated and pkg won't support that
anyhow as it will want all of the dependencies; you can't just download
1 package, you need the whole set available. A listing of tarballs is
not very helpful for inquiries as opposed to pkg search or freshports.

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> Thank you very much .
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> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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