pkg_add and 9.1 Release
Ian Smith
smithi at nimnet.asn.au
Wed Jan 2 16:03:14 UTC 2013
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 448, Issue 3, Message: 24
- please pardon the loss of threading -
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:47:41 -0500 (EST) doug at safeport.com wrote:
> 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.
Looking forward to using pkgng on my next 9.1 laptop, thanks Matthew.
> >> 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.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/Latest/
is still there, though. I ran into this from the installed 9.1-RELEASE
/etc/motd's suggestion of adding Handbook, FAQ etc by using pkg_add -r
en-freebsd-doc. I browsed to
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/docs/en-freebsd-doc-39278,1.tbz
dated October, and figured that should do for now :) I could have set
PACKAGESITE but it was as easy to fetch(1) that file then pkg_add it.
If I were going to install say X + KDE on that laptop - which I'm not -
I'd merrily use what was fresh in October and upgrade as packages become
available again, and build anything needing 'more freshness' from ports.
cheers, Ian
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