Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:16:58 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Official FreeBSD Binary Packages now available for pkgng Message-ID: <CAOgwaMtcm=tp91X5Xi2eu0ak8SkpFh9iyY_fkqvJFO7sSiCxuQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5272CF54.3090906@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> <CAOgwaMsN%2BLhAuL7JhwTFWEWY3AOU1n2hTHz%2BYbX2kPjx0xfVMA@mail.gmail.com> <5272CF54.3090906@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 10/31/2013 4:39 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org > > <mailto:bdrewery@freebsd.org>> 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 <http://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 <http://tcp.pkg.freebsd.org> > > # drill SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org <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 . > > While I agree it is an inconvenience, why would you need to browse the > packages on some webpage without FreeBSD installed? Since packages are > installed from ports you can just load www.freshports.org to find what > you want. With it installed you can run 'pkg search'. Browsing a page > for downloadable packages is a bit outdated and pkg won't support that > anyhow as it will want all of the dependencies; you can't just download > 1 package, you need the whole set available. A listing of tarballs is > not very helpful for inquiries as opposed to pkg search or freshports. > > > > > > > Thank you very much . > > > > > > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Bryan Drewery > > This packages list inspection is very important because when the needed package(s) is ( are ) not available , I am not downloading and installing the operating system in question . This is saving both my time and resources of the respective operating system owners and supporters . For the FreeBSD , freshports is not showing release or snapshot related package lists . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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