pkg_add and 9.1 Release

[doug at safeport.com]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote:
>> Is this command being phased out? pkg_add -r uses a default environment
>> of
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/
>
> In fact, yes, pkg_add and the other pkg_tools commands are being phased
> out in favour of pkgng.  However it is early days yet, and the problem
> you're seeing has nothing to do with that process.  pkgng won't become
> the default in 9.x until the next release: until then the status quo
> ante persists.
>
>> This path does not exist on ftp.freebsd.org.
>
> Quite so.  It's because of this:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html
>
> As a consequence, large parts of the package building infrastructure are
> quarantined, pending reinstallation.  Also there is a lot of work going
> into revising the software used to build the packages with security
> enhancements in mind.  So there simply aren't packages available yet to
> go with 9.1-RELEASE.

Ah yes, thank you Matthew. I had forgotten about that. I guess the 9.1RC3 
packages were removed for the same reason.


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