[HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 01:37:17 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:30 PM, Chuck Burns <break19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 2:19:19 AM Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> > Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > A tag has been applied to the ports tree if you need to get the latest
> > > ports tree before the EOL of pkg_install:
> > > https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/tags/PKG_INSTALL_EOL
> > >
> > > A branch has been created if some committers want to provides updates
> on
> > > the for pkg_install users:
> > > https://svn.FreeBSD.org/ports/branches/pkg_install
> > >
> > > Please note that this branch is not officially maintained and that we
> > > strongly recommend that you do migrate to pkg(8)
> >
> > And for the portsnap users?
>
> Uhh.. continue using portsnap?  Why would that matter??
>

portsnap can't fetch a tag or branch.

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