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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:19:47 -0800
From:      Patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com>
To:        Matthew Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkgng woes
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Ah, perhaps that's the key. I was installing from /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg=
.

Thanks!

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Matthew Pounsett <matt@conundrum.com> wrote=
:
>
> On 2014-01-07, at 17:08 , Patrick <gibblertron@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to move to pkgng on some 9.2 systems, and I'm having a hard
>> time finding some working examples of the configuration files one
>> would need to pull in packages from the official FreeBSD package
>> servers. Is there something obvious I'm missing?
>
> I'm running it on a fresh 9.2-RELEASE system with no special configuratio=
n at all.  I'm using the default pkg.conf:
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
> packagesite: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest
>
> # pkg
> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
> Bootstrapping pkg please wait
> _http._tcp.pkg.FreeBSD.org
> Installing pkg-1.2.4_1... done
> [=85]
>
> You get some instructions that are important if you've been using the old=
 ports system, and then you're ready to use it.
>
> I am getting warnings about the use of PACKAGESITE in the default config,=
 but it works.
>
>
>



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