Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:47:41 -0500 (EST) From: doug@safeport.com To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pkg_add and 9.1 Release Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301020246050.87494@oceanpt.safeport.com> Resent-Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301020258490.87528@oceanpt.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <50E3DAB0.9020001@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301020018230.42551@fledge.watson.org> <50E3DAB0.9020001@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 02/01/2013 05:20, doug wrote: >> Is this command being phased out? pkg_add -r uses a default environment >> of >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.1-release/Latest/ > > In fact, yes, pkg_add and the other pkg_tools commands are being phased > out in favour of pkgng. However it is early days yet, and the problem > you're seeing has nothing to do with that process. pkgng won't become > the default in 9.x until the next release: until then the status quo > ante persists. > >> This path does not exist on ftp.freebsd.org. > > Quite so. It's because of this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html > > As a consequence, large parts of the package building infrastructure are > quarantined, pending reinstallation. Also there is a lot of work going > into revising the software used to build the packages with security > enhancements in mind. So there simply aren't packages available yet to > go with 9.1-RELEASE. Ah yes, thank you Matthew. I had forgotten about that. I guess the 9.1RC3 packages were removed for the same reason. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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