using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

[Damien Fleuriot]

Used it on 8.3 boxes here, no complaints so far.

Gonna slowly transition all our ~60 firewalls to pkgng.

Note that I used pkg2ng on firewall boxes with ~180 installed ports each.


On 29 Nov 2012, at 22:48, Frank <urealfrank at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is safe yet to use pkg2ng in production? 
> 
> -- 
> Frank
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Fbsd8 wrote:
> 
>> Matthew Seaman wrote:
>>> On 23/11/2012 19:19, Fbsd8 wrote:
>>>> Where do I find the url for the beta-test server repositories?
>>>> Can I use ftp or browser to see index content?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> pkg.conf as supplied in the port-mgmt/pkg port comes with the right URL
>>> for the FreeBSD pkg repo[*], which is currently pointing at the
>>> beta-test repo, but which will in the fullness of time be changed to
>>> point at the actual production repo.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> There is no pkg.conf supplied. It's named as pkg.conf.sample this fact 
>> is not mentioned anywhere. pkg should be released with a default 
>> pkg.conf not a pkg.conf.sample so pkg is ready to function right from 
>> the original install of pkg.
>>> 
>>> No, in general you can't assume that you'll be able to browse the repo
>>> using a web browser or similar. Even if you could, all you'ld see is a
>>> lot of pkg tarballs which would tell you the package names and versions
>>> and how much data you'll need to download and not a lot else. Use the
>>> repo catalogue. It can tell you almost anything you might want to know
>>> about the available packages in the repo.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Matthew
>>> 
>>> [*] Note: the default URL uses an SRV record in the DNS, which typical
>>> web browsers don't know how to handle. You'll just get NXDOMAIN if you
>>> try and point Firefox at it.
>>> 
>>> For those who know how to handle SRV records, it looks like this:
>>> 
>>> worm:~:% dig _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org) IN SRV
>>> 
>>> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P4 <<>> _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org) IN SRV
>>> ;; global options: +cmd
>>> ;; Got answer:
>>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48300
>>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>> 
>>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>>> ;_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org). IN SRV
>>> 
>>> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>> _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org). 3600 IN SRV 10 10 80 pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org (http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org).
>>> 
>>> ;; Query time: 44 msec
>>> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
>>> ;; WHEN: Fri Nov 23 21:13:50 2012
>>> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 83
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Yes the url pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org (http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org) can be browsed using a browser.
>> As of Nov 28 pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org (http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org) only contains the pkg package.
>> So in conclusion, pkg is not ready for testing.
>> 
>> 
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