From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 31 21:39:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@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 ESMTP id 7424BCB3; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:39:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22c.google.com (mail-ie0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3136E255A; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f172.google.com with SMTP id tp5so6092862ieb.31 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:39:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=oQygHHp/7+POVzkdU8/+FNImZYlNYh9GmFKcKEOH+XA=; b=hi1PezgLOvnXiJEq13tnMZppmiS96YYv6OUBIzTyE7dviHLMO2ewAhYtxr6R+IIcMS SU5I4C60BG1Z9RMEeE0y3SCiOzJiB64uguN2aObUtTBBySqtrKNpZgyWMkboNGWqRhH8 7U2acp3vVOx6QPJmkrYqmMrw1RjkBEcln5LRMSQF9r3Wnnqj6CQNZliYbSUhJS3JpSGW n20otknOfYJ81Y/0IGNQV1aKYv217I3bMyhkvxE+ItbMvoph1uvvv47zLbpSVgYgzu/g 5riJXX743BcEPxVdjL/8UEOcsAbOT9q0Hy/4dvEdEj7pxOpbXbKhuSRPXMH540UpHbMx Wakw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.6.106 with SMTP id z10mr79867igz.9.1383255580999; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.12.140 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 14:39:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5272C46E.2050105@FreeBSD.org> References: <5271BC11.1010303@FreeBSD.org> <1383206755084-5856905.post@n5.nabble.com> <5272107D.2070301@gibfest.dk> <5272BAB0.3040302@freebsd.org> <5272C46E.2050105@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:39:40 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Bryan Drewery Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: Alfred Perlstein , FreeBSD Ports List X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:39:44 -0000 On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 10/31/2013 3:16 PM, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > On 10/31/13 1:10 AM, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote: > >> On 31-10-2013 09:05, Beeblebrox wrote: > >>> Brian: > >>> Please make sure your message gets posted on > >>> http://forums.freebsd.org/ as a > >>> general announcement. > >>> Also, the DNS records for http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/ does not seem to > have > >>> flushed-through yet (not working as of 08:00 GMT) > >> > >> Quoting from Brians excellent email: > >> > >> "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." > >> > > > > That seems to raise the bar for people trying to check connectivity to > > it via ping/telnet. Is that intentional? > > > > -Alfred > > > You can find the real hosts with dig(1) or drill(1): > > # dig SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org > # drill SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org > > > -- > Regards, > Bryan Drewery > > At present , the packages information and themselves are available from , such as : ftp://ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/ It seems that new pkg compatible packages will not be exposed to the Internet such as http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/dports/ http://pkg.wolfpond.org/ http://mirror.exonetric.net/pub/pkgng/ This will be a very significant inconvenience for the possible users because without an installed FreeBSD , they will not be able to see what are the available packages there . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk