Newest mediawiki is not a package on FreeBSD 10.2

Sergei G sergeig.public at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 23:19:49 UTC 2015


Thank you

That's exactly what I wanted to know.  I prefer to wait for a week.

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:41 AM, Michael B. Eichorn <ike at michaeleichorn.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-12-29 at 01:25 -0800, Sergei G wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to install latest mediawiki 1.26 on FreeBSD 10.2.
> >
> > However, the search with 'pkg search -x mediawiki' returns the
> > following
> > (trimmed) response:
> >
> > mediawiki119-1.19.24
> > mediawiki123-1.23.10
> > mediawiki124-1.24.3
> > mediawiki125-1.25.2
> >
> > I don't see mediawiki126, but it is available in ports collection at:
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/www/mediawiki126/
> >
> > I am on a standard installation and I am willing to install it inside
> > a
> > dedicated 10.2 jail.   How do I point FreeBSD package system so it
> > can
> > find mediawiki126?
>
> There is indeed a package for mediawiki126, however it was created in
> 2015Q4 (this quarter). 10.2 now follows the quarterly ports branches by
> default. As Q1 starts this week you can choose to wait a week or
> alternatively switch your package repo to ports/head by changing the
> url line in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf from:
>
>   url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
>
> to
>
>   url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",


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