PKGNG on FreeBSD-CURRENT

ronaldlees

ronaldlees

Hello,

I've been playing with the new package manager on FreeBSD 10. I must say, it's very easy to get along with. I like it!

My only concern was the bootstrapping of PKGNG. I really didn't get a warm-fuzzy from that, because I didn't know if/how the signature was checked on the auto-fetch of the bootstrap. The next time I installed an fBSD FreeBSD 10.0 snapshot, I built and installed pkg from ports before installing any of my prebuilt (txz) packages. Now I get the warm fuzzy.

Why not include pkg in the ISO/memstick?
 
It's the HEAD branch and you're expected to do all the port building yourself because of the experimental nature of the branch. There are no packages for 10-CURRENT anyway. On the snapshots of 9-STABLE it would make more sense to include a prebuilt pkg.
 
Search the ports mailing list archives for "pkgng bootstrap" for a detailed explanation of why it will never be included in the base install or install media.
 
kpa said:
It's the HEAD branch and you're expected to do all the port building yourself because of the experimental nature of the branch. There are no packages for 10-CURRENT anyway. On the snapshots of 9-STABLE it would make more sense to include a prebuilt pkg.
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pkg could fetch packages for FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT.
  1. If it is not yet done, create /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf by copying /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample:

    # cp /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
  2. Edit pkg.conf and replace the URL of the PACKAGESITE line by the below URL of unofficial "official" packages:

    http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/${ABI}/latest
Now the pkg command will be able to install the requested package if it is available on exonetric.net
 
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