State of Packages

[Bryan Drewery]

On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, doug at safeport.com wrote:
> Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored.

Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again.
They will come back.

> 
> Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/
> 
> Name             Size         Last Modified
> File:MANIFEST         1 KB         12/04/12 10:10:00
> File:base.txz         58452 KB     12/04/12 10:09:00
> File:doc.txz         1410 KB     12/04/12 10:10:00
> File:games.txz         1092 KB     12/04/12 10:10:00
> File:kernel.txz     56686 KB     12/04/12 10:10:00
> File:lib32.txz         9516 KB     12/04/12 10:10:00
> File:ports.txz         85867 KB     12/04/12 10:10:00
> File:src.txz         94190 KB     12/04/12 10:10:00
> 
> This pretty much invalidates 5.4 of the handbook.
> 
> My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images?
> I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time
> on my hands during the download :)
> 
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-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery
bdrewery at freenode/EFNet

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