old ports/packages

[Mathieu Arnold]

+--On 3 mai 2016 12:02:13 +0800 Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
| On 2/05/2016 8:39 PM, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
|> +--On 2 mai 2016 18:39:57 +0800 Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org>
|> wrote:
|> | Hi guys,
|> | 
|> | ok so I see:
|> | 
|> | 2014-04-30 ports-mgmt/pkg_install: Replaced by ports-mgmt/pkg
|> | 
|> | 
|> | So now how do enterprises maintaining appliances etc. generate packages
|> | for old systems?
|> 
|> There is a tag, https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL/
|> that gives you the last version to support pkg_install.  Anything after
|> that will not work with it.  At all.
|> 
| I'm not looking to produce old packages of the ports tree.. I know the
| ports crew would hate me for that.
| 
| What I object to is not having the tools needed to generate MY OWN
| PACKAGES in ports.

You can generate your own packages from the ports tree, just not with
pkg_install, it was deprecated three or four years ago, and remove 19
months ago.
The best way to generate packages is with ports-mgmt/poudriere, it will
generate a very nice pkg repository.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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