pkg search k3b returns nothing

Leslie Jensen leslie at eskk.nu
Tue Apr 2 09:30:47 UTC 2013



2013-04-02 11:22, Jeff Tipton skrev:
> On 04/02/2013 11:35, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>>
>> I've just changed to pkg and thought that I would try out how it works.
>>
>> After copying the pkg.conf.sample to pkg.conf and doing
>>
>> pkg update
>> Updating repository catalogue
>> repo.txz                        100% 1836     1.8KB/s   1.8KB/s 00:00
>>
>> I tried the command pkg search k3b and it returned with nothing.
>>
>> Is it so that not all ports are available as packages and that's why I
>> don't get anything?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> /Leslie
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> What repo are you using? According to the latest release announcement
> (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/announce.html), no official repos
> hold pkgng, it's just a test environment with one package or so. The bad
> news is that pkg2ng conversion is irreversible:) I just googled and
> found an unofficial repo announced here:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-February/072037.html
>
> Or you can try to set up one yourself as explained here:
> http://www.sysadmin-fr.org/fr/node/667
>
> But I haven't tested how this works.
>
> Jeff
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My /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf lists

PACKAGESITE         : http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest

But thank you anyway.

I suspected something like this so I'll just carry on installing as I 
use to.

Hopefully there will be packages available eventually.

/Leslie






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