pkg: fetching packages for 10.2 on 11-CURRENT

[O. Hartmann]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2015 18:55:06 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 07:00:01AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > Is it possible and doable via a simple setup (script/environment) to fetch
> > pre-built packages for 10.2-STABLE/10.2-RELEASE with pkg/pkgng on
> > 11-CURRENT?
> > 
> > Background: running a development system on 11-CURRENT, on which I prefer to
> > build my packages in the traditional way from sources without that massive
> > overhead poudriere pushes me sometimes into the situation for the need of 
> > ordinary binary packages for a 10.2-platform. On 11-CURRENT, I use a lot of
> > individual configurations on the ports making the binary packages useless,
> > but for that specific project (based on NanoBSD), it would be great to to
> > simply fetch binary packages for a "foreign" system's version.
> > 
> > Thank you very much in advance and pelase do CC me, I'm not subscribing the
> > list.
> 
> as root
> pkg -o ABI=FreeBSD:10:amd64 -o ALTABI=freebsd:10:x86:64 -o
> PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/tothrowaway fetch ... or as a user
> pkg -o ABI=FreeBSD:10:amd64 -o ALTABI=freebsd:10:x86:64 -o
> PKG_DBDIR=/tmp/tothrowaway -o INSTALL_AS_USER=yes fetch ...
> 
> 
> The fact you have to specify both ABI and ALTABI is a bug I will fix.
> 
> Best regards,
> Bapt

Thank you very much. This sounds easy to perform. Sorry for the late response.

Regards,
Oliver