Re: [HEADSUP] No more pkg_install on HEAD by default

From: Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske_at_fisglobal.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:48:34 +0000
On Jul 13, 2013, at 9:24 PM, Peter Wemm wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Teske, Devin
> <Devin.Teske_at_fisglobal.com> wrote:
> 
>> So yes... I'm asking... in a HEAD world, what is the "officially supported" method of acquisition?
> 
> This has been answered elsewhere, but to be absolutely clear:
> 
> * 10.0 will ship with pkgng format packages.
> 

Ok. Respectfully not what I was inquiring about.


> * pkgng will be configured to pull via http from project
> infrastructure by default.
> 

Thanks. Good to know. So when you don't define PACKAGESITE, it defaults to HTTP.

How about rquery? What protocol does that use? and what does it talk to?



> * The project will not be providing pkg_install format packages via
> any method for 10.x.
> 

Yes, I know this from previous announcements (not the topic at-hand; respectfully).



> This doesn't stop third parties building and providing them
> unofficially but my understanding is that they won't be on any project
> operated freebsd.org sites.
> 

Question: Where can I learn more about the actual format of what's in the new tarballs? This is going to be important not for bsdconfig, but $work (we have our own build platform; I'm going to have to rewrite it from mastering PLIST files to mastering YAML MANIFEST files and I want to know all the gritty details).
-- 
Devin

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