From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 01:51:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@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 ESMTPS id 08FEAFC5; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2FE1E3F; Tue, 2 Sep 2014 01:51:34 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0NB90005G40CH900@hades.sorbs.net>; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <540522A3.9050506@sorbs.net> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:51:31 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: "Sam Fourman Jr." Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] pkg(8) is now the only package management tool References: <20140901195520.GB77917@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54050D07.4010404@sorbs.net> In-reply-to: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 03:44:30 +0000 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, pkg@freebsd.org, Baptiste Daroussin , stable@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:51:35 -0000 Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: >> And for the portsnap users? >> >> >> > In short, this change doesn't directly effect portsnap users. > Sure about that? > Portsnap is a tool that used to obtain a copy of the ports tree. > try this: portsnap fetch update && cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make install If you *haven't* install pkg first... > Portsnap is only one way, another way to get a copy of the ports tree is by > using subversion and checking it out by using the svn command. > Not much good if you haven't installed svn already... > pkg(8) is a package management tool, and to make use of most packages > having a copy of the ports tree is not required. > > Correct, take a 9.2 install disk, install it, portsnap and then install pkg on it... Oh wait, you can't.. pkg_install is broken, and 9.2 install disks don't have pkg in the BaseOS.... -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/