pkgng woes

[Patrick]

Ah, perhaps that's the key. I was installing from /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg.

Thanks!

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com> wrote:
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> On 2014-01-07, at 17:08 , Patrick <gibblertron at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm trying to move to pkgng on some 9.2 systems, and I'm having a hard
>> time finding some working examples of the configuration files one
>> would need to pull in packages from the official FreeBSD package
>> servers. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
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> I'm running it on a fresh 9.2-RELEASE system with no special configuration at all.  I'm using the default pkg.conf:
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> # cat /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
> packagesite: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest
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> # pkg
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg please wait
> _http._tcp.pkg.FreeBSD.org
> Installing pkg-1.2.4_1... done
> […]
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> You get some instructions that are important if you've been using the old ports system, and then you're ready to use it.
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> I am getting warnings about the use of PACKAGESITE in the default config, but it works.
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