[HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

Matthew D. Fuller fullermd at over-yonder.net
Tue Sep 2 02:27:04 UTC 2014


On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 03:51:31AM +0200 I heard the voice of
Michelle Sullivan, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> Correct, take a 9.2 install disk, install it, portsnap and then
> install pkg on it...  Oh wait, you can't.. pkg_install is broken,
> and 9.2 install disks don't have pkg in the BaseOS....

So what?  The pkg port uses _ITSELF_ to register.  The "pkg" in the
base system isn't pkg, it just a bootstrap to fetch the pkg pkg (which
them uses itself to register too).  If you're using the pkg _PORT_,
it's not even involved in the first place.


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