From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 02:10:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: announce@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF4A8275 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:10:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA7F22535 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:10:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9V2AXlE083703 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:10:33 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from bdrewery@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id r9V2AXe8083694 for announce@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:10:33 GMT (envelope-from bdrewery) Received: (qmail 24374 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2013 21:10:31 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.0.24?) (freebsd@shatow.net@10.10.0.24) by sweb.xzibition.com with ESMTPA; 30 Oct 2013 21:10:31 -0500 Message-ID: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:10:25 -0500 From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pkg@FreeBSD.org X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 OpenPGP: id=3C9B0CF9; url=http://www.shatow.net/bryan/bryan.asc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:59:48 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: pkg@FreeBSD.org List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:10:34 -0000 We are pleased to announce that official binary packages are now available for pkg, the next generation package management tool for FreeBSD. Pkg allows you to either use ports with portmaster/portupgrade or to have binary remote packages without ports. We have binary packages available for i386 and amd64 on 8.3,8.4,9.1,9.2,10.0 and 11 (head). Pkg will be the default starting in FreeBSD 10. The pkg_install suite of tools pkg_create(1), pkg_add(1), and pkg_info(1) (which ports also use), are deprecated and will be discontinued in roughly 6 months. A communication regarding the deprecation of the pkg_install suite of tools will be sent separately in the future. If you are currently not using pkg and wish to, run the following as root. Be sure not to add WITH_PKGNG=yes to your make.conf until after pkg is installed. # cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make install clean # echo WITH_PKGNG=yes >> /etc/make.conf # pkg2ng You can now either continue to use ports with portmaster/portupgrade, as before or switch to using binary packages only. To use binary packages: 1. Ensure your pkg(8) is up-to-date. 'pkg -v' should say at least 1.1.4_8. If it does not, first upgrade from ports. 2. Remove any repository-specific configuration from /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, such as PACKAGESITE, MIRROR_TYPE, PUBKEY. If this leaves your pkg.conf empty, just remove it. 3. mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos 4. Create the file /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf with: FreeBSD: { url: "http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest", mirror_type: "srv", enabled: "yes" } * Note that pkg.FreeBSD.org does not have a browsable web page on it and does not have a DNS A record. This is intended as it is an SRV host. pkg(8) knows how to properly use it. You can use 'pkg search' to browse the available packages in the repository. 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 Your system is now ready to use packages! Refer to the handbook section on pkgng for usage at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pkgng-intro.html. Also see 'man pkg' for examples or 'pkg help'. Packages are built weekly from a snapshot of the Ports Collection every Wednesday morning 01:00 UTC. They typically will be available in the repository after a few days. Pkg 1.2 will be released in the coming month which will bring many improvements including officially signed packages. FreeBSD 10's pkg bootstrap now also supports signed pkg(8) installation. Regards, Bryan Drewery on behalf of portmgr@