From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 11:49:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B716106564A for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:49:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jlaffaye.freebsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7BD08FC08 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 11:49:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so701464bkv.13 for ; Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wCo+g7cmfbvJC9zpIRf+e1GUm0IpoZZTb8npTo+FfdQ=; b=oYcmx4rFyArCGMgGJM7B214VceSZlkCGhcAA7xAZGUZzCNdTCLuS7jF5mLQNi9Tk9n +Y5OrbcA2aZA6Cnkxt9utSHnfPjiXJfOJWJ3rS4aN+CpXoXFfWA2eYUBLdmHe9w0undq Nlmni1YGdG64pbnAdmaTvKH7Q1uTsb3Noq/jB7qkCS5CV/W5Plr4V61XQJR/MlTNFETw aKqMwtbz7OYImiDD8UFXSOdOQq7ApwMuHAMS3dqV+L7XcDYzK5Bn91bWRiNELXHKZGGI gPhxrCE/ls6dKL7g5DlFWoWw8xF8cpDr4uFOavkaFCBXgirSiqPjQnY8q6mYmC59GICb wv5A== Received: by 10.204.152.70 with SMTP id f6mr1002259bkw.7.1337168986774; Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.42.116.106] (proxy.ovh.net. [213.186.50.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m2sm4467734bkm.2.2012.05.16.04.49.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 16 May 2012 04:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Julien Laffaye Message-ID: <4FB39458.5060608@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:49:44 +0200 From: Julien Laffaye User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: pkgng problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 11:49:48 -0000 On 05/16/12 13:13, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hi, > > I attempted to try pkgng, and failed: > > 1) I would like to request some documentation be added in the > ports-mgmt/pkg port, to the pkg-message file, instructing to set up the > pkg.conf (by copying the pkg.conf.sample file) before starting to do > anything with pkgng. I would also like to request this same > documentation added to the FAQ at > https://github.com/pkgng/pkgng/blob/master/FAQ.md#0, and that the error > message "pkg: PACKAGESITE is not defined" be changed to e.g. "pkg: > PACKAGESITE is not defined - pkg.conf not found" or something similar > indicating how to solve the problem. Well, it can also be an environment variable. > 2) The pkg.conf.sample file does not contain a list of valid repos: > > repos: > default : http://example.org/pkgng/ > repo1 : http://somewhere.org/pkgng/repo1/ > repo2 : http://somewhere.org/pkgng/repo2/ > > ... and apparently this makes running "pkg update" impossible as it > exits with the completely useless error message "Broken pipe". At least > this error message should be changed. I will have a look. > > I would like to request that pkg.conf.sample contain valid repos by > default. While at it, where on the web is the list of valid repos and > why is the documentation (README and the .sample conf file) not > referencing it instead of specifying the abstract "example.org" addresses? Well, we have a repo for testing: pkgbeta.freebsd.org but it is not endorsed by portmgr or something like that. Plus, this repo is temporary and can/will disappear. But we can add it during the testing phase. > (I know pkgng is not finished, but this way you are not going to get any > enthusiastic testers...)