using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

[Frank]

-- 
Frank


On Thursday, November 29, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote:

> 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.
> 
pretty nice :)

Tomorrow I'm going to prepare a 9.1-RC3 with pkgng. Wish me luck :) 
 
> 
> 
> On 29 Nov 2012, at 22:48, Frank <urealfrank at gmail.com (mailto: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) (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org) IN SRV
> > > > 
> > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P4 <<>> _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_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) (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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