Hello, I just tried 11-beta2 ? as usual, many thanks for all your hard work, Devs and REs! I'm very concerned that there's still just a bootstrap-pkg :-( Most of the machines I'm responsible for don't have internet access ? and won't ever have. Currently, I don't have a 11-machine for building pkg(8) handy. How Do I get pkg(8) the official way (for machines without internet access)? Are there official ftp servers available for manual downloading (I know of pkgs SRV lookup method, but since I need to 'scp' packages from arbitrary internet-connected clients, I can't utilize pkg(8) especially in a situation like now, where I have not a single compatible alternative client/host). pkg(8) has biten my some dozend times since stable/10 due to it's ring dependency :-( :-( :-( Please, don't ship FreeBSD 11 without a full version of pkg(8) in the base! Thanks, -Harry
Harry Schmalzbauer wrote on 07/28/2016 19:52:> Hello, > > I just tried 11-beta2 ? as usual, many thanks for all your hard work, > Devs and REs! > > I'm very concerned that there's still just a bootstrap-pkg :-([...]> Please, don't ship FreeBSD 11 without a full version of pkg(8) in the base!There are no plans to have pkg in base - not until base will be packaged too. (there are good reasons for this) Miroslav Lachman
On 28/07/2016 18:52, Harry Schmalzbauer wrote:> Most of the machines I'm responsible for don't have internet access ? > and won't ever have. > Currently, I don't have a 11-machine for building pkg(8) handy. > How Do I get pkg(8) the official way (for machines without internet access)? > Are there official ftp servers available for manual downloading (I know > of pkgs SRV lookup method, but since I need to 'scp' packages from > arbitrary internet-connected clients, I can't utilize pkg(8) especially > in a situation like now, where I have not a single compatible > alternative client/host).You can use pkg-fetch(8) to download packages on a machine with internet access, and then copy /var/cache/pkg onto a USB stick or whatever to load onto your isolated systems. You can even take the cntents of /var/cache/pkg and run pkg-repo(8) to make your own repository that you can use to install packages from on your isolated machines. Cheers, Matthew -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 931 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20160728/4d515aa1/attachment.sig>