Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

Mark Felder feld at FreeBSD.org
Tue Oct 8 16:27:31 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 10:58, Zoran Kolic wrote:
> > Use PACKAGESITE=http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest
> > 
> > That's the kit that will form the official FreeBSD package repository;
> > it just lacks the crypto bits for signing the packages, which is why
> > it's calling itself 'pkg-test'
> > 
> > Oh -- there isn't an A record in the DNS for pkg-test.freebsd.org --
> > look up a SRV record for _http._tcp.pkg-test.freebsd.org instead.
> 
> Well, I still have no idea what the address of the server is.
> Could someone post it (i.e. 123.456.789.123 or alike)?

# dig _http._tcp.pkg-test.freebsd.org SRV

; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-P2 <<>> _http._tcp.pkg-test.freebsd.org SRV
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8634
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4000
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;_http._tcp.pkg-test.freebsd.org. IN    SRV

;; ANSWER SECTION:
_http._tcp.pkg-test.freebsd.org. 120 IN SRV     10 10 80
pkg1.nyi.freebsd.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
pkg1.nyi.freebsd.org.   3600    IN      A       96.47.72.120
pkg1.nyi.freebsd.org.   3600    IN      AAAA    2610:1c1:1:6300::16:78

;; Query time: 374 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.93.251#53(192.168.93.251)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 08 11:24:41 CDT 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 144



> After having it set as PACKAGESITE, I assume running pkg, pkg2ng,
> pkg update, pkg upgrade -fy enough?
> Best regards all
> 

Depends. Where are your other installed packages from? I'd probably
re-install all of them from the pkg-test repository just to be safe.


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