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Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 00:36:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng
From: Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial@gmail.com>
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Cc: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>,
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On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 05:22:44PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 10/31/2013 4:54 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <
>> > m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> At present , the packages information and themselves are available from ,
>> >> such as :
>> >>
>> >> ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/
>> >>
>> >> It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the
>> >> Internet such as
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/
>> >> http://pkg.wolfpond.org/
>> >> http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users
>> >> because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see what
>> >> are the available packages there .
>> >>
>> >
>> > ???From the original message:
>> > Mirrors you may use instead of the global
>> > pkg.FreeBSD.org<http://pkg.freebsd.org/>
>> > :
>> >
>> >     pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.eu.freebsd.org/>
>> >     pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-east.freebsd.org/>
>> >     pkg.us-west.FreeBSD.org <http://pkg.us-west.freebsd.org/>
>> >
>> >
>> > pkg.freebsd.org is, basically, an alias for the above (and any other
>> > mirrors that come online) and the pkg(1) tool will pick a "local" mirror
>> > based on the DNS response for pkg.freebsd.org.
>> >
>> > However, you are free to manually enter any of the above mirrors into your
>> > pkg.conf.
>> >
>> > And, you are free to browse any of the above mirrors via HTTP in any web
>> > browser.
>> >
>> > It's not nearly as convenient as just browsing pkg.freebsd.org, but it's
>> > still possible to do so.
>>
>> These are still SRV hosts as well. The real hosts can be found with
>>
>> dig SRV _http._tcp.HOST HOST being the host from above lists.
>>
>
> Please add this to pkg.conf(5) as this it not intuitive and the syntax
> is a bit cumbersome.


You will never have to know that syntax unless you're one of the few
that are behind a very restrictive firewall/proxy. The pkg client does
all this SRV record magic internally to find out a suitable mirror.