Used it on 8.3 boxes here, no complaints so far. Gonna slowly transition all our ~60 firewalls to pkgng.
Note that I used pkg2ng on firewall boxes with ~180 installed ports each. On 29 Nov 2012, at 22:48, Frank <urealfr...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is safe yet to use pkg2ng in production? > > -- > Frank > > > On Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > >> Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> On 23/11/2012 19:19, Fbsd8 wrote: >>>> Where do I find the url for the beta-test server repositories? >>>> Can I use ftp or browser to see index content? >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> pkg.conf as supplied in the port-mgmt/pkg port comes with the right URL >>> for the FreeBSD pkg repo[*], which is currently pointing at the >>> beta-test repo, but which will in the fullness of time be changed to >>> point at the actual production repo. >>> >> >> >> There is no pkg.conf supplied. It's named as pkg.conf.sample this fact >> is not mentioned anywhere. pkg should be released with a default >> pkg.conf not a pkg.conf.sample so pkg is ready to function right from >> the original install of pkg. >>> >>> No, in general you can't assume that you'll be able to browse the repo >>> using a web browser or similar. Even if you could, all you'ld see is a >>> lot of pkg tarballs which would tell you the package names and versions >>> and how much data you'll need to download and not a lot else. Use the >>> repo catalogue. It can tell you almost anything you might want to know >>> about the available packages in the repo. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Matthew >>> >>> [*] Note: the default URL uses an SRV record in the DNS, which typical >>> web browsers don't know how to handle. You'll just get NXDOMAIN if you >>> try and point Firefox at it. >>> >>> For those who know how to handle SRV records, it looks like this: >>> >>> worm:~:% dig _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org) >>> IN SRV >>> >>> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P4 <<>> _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org >>> (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org) IN SRV >>> ;; global options: +cmd >>> ;; Got answer: >>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48300 >>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 >>> >>> ;; QUESTION SECTION: >>> ;_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org). IN SRV >>> >>> ;; ANSWER SECTION: >>> _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org (http://_http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org). 3600 IN SRV >>> 10 10 80 pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org (http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org). >>> >>> ;; Query time: 44 msec >>> ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) >>> ;; WHEN: Fri Nov 23 21:13:50 2012 >>> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 83 >>> >> >> >> Yes the url pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org (http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org) can be browsed >> using a browser. >> As of Nov 28 pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org (http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org) only contains >> the pkg package. >> So in conclusion, pkg is not ready for testing. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org) mailing >> list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org >> (mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org)" >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"