Re: pkg (aka pkgng) 1.0 released

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:30:39 +0200
On 06/09/2012 18:44, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 06/09/2012 16:37, Ivan Voras wrote:

>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like the pkg port installs pkg.conf.sample with the line:
>>
>> PACKAGESITE         : http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest
>>
>> ... which is finally a good step in the direction of making pkgng
>> working by default, except that the "pkg.freebsd.org" site doesn't exist
>> in DNS. Instead, pkgbeta.freebsd.org still exists. I suppose one should
>> be a DNS CNAME for the other?
> 
> It's a SRV record:
> 
> seedling:~:% dig +short IN SRV _http._tcp.pkg.freebsd.org
> 10 10 80 pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org.

Hi,

What are the benefits of doing it this way?


Received on Fri Sep 07 2012 - 09:30:58 UTC

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