From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 21:54:20 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4845A3BE for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:54:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x22f.google.com (mail-ob0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 10B2E2650 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:54:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f175.google.com with SMTP id wm4so3727895obc.20 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:54:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Ev1k/307IKc7IQ4rrnUWReHSimhB0y6DTqLYiXmHNdU=; b=q0Mfhr4wcvH7REBH/SVR2aC4c+Yu/7Lc6lFvVXHPu8bTqi9fvyE8SUW4Qtg/CWS4U8 GD+e2zRcSnNhrhX54zE4rK9L7IA6VsgihXjQDQ/iJgjIw+nHkRxecL7/DlCxbyp04Yda g40cDn0H/rUaB6rGwntvdPU4ula3vhBHlq32dFpem+5lURRVGINcauDegAov+fVdOmQY PRzsKNzRJKFual/mBupYdR6btW/2jGoa1SU/hSOZldDmJ/vroX3nZcjbFAuRvEgwnSth O4+Cj08dObLVHpYlEVpKmgZqEM9SzuJWsr4rcdDiyI46r5HNf0LlRcbKdaSfPlAdLWzR xQAw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.98.69 with SMTP id eg5mr4359657oeb.42.1383256459243; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:54:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.132.9 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:54:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> <1383206755084-5856905.post@n5.nabble.com> <5272107D.2070301@gibfest.dk> <5272BAB0.3040302@freebsd.org> <5272C46E.2050105@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:54:19 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng From: Freddie Cash To: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Ports List X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:54:20 -0000 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 > 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 . > =E2=80=8BFrom the original message: Mirrors you may use instead of the global pkg.FreeBSD.org : pkg.eu.FreeBSD.org pkg.us-east.FreeBSD.org 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. --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com