Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng

[Bryan Drewery]

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.

> 
> 
> 


-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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