[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD pkg repository question

Pete Wright pete at nomadlogic.org
Mon Dec 9 18:33:34 EST 2013



On 12/09/13 15:32, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 01:28:16PM -0800, Pete Wright wrote:
>> wanted to ping talk@ before hitting up freebsd-questions@ - i manage my
>> own pkg repositories for my freebsd systems.  recently i've been getting
>> this warning message when ever i update my packages (via pkg upgrade):
>>
>>
>> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository
>> configuration file
>> Updating repository catalogue
>>
>>
>> I understand pkg has moved over to using SRV records and new
>> configuration format for repository configurations.  what i can not
>> figure out, or find docs on how to do this, is setting up my local
>> repository to work with the new pkg.conf configuration syntax.
> 
> Yeah, it's on the wiki (as opposed to the Handbook)
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng#Availability_of_binary_pkgs_for_Download
> 
> There's a sample file.  I just copied that exactly and it worked.
> 
> 

hrm i had thought i tested that but was still running into errors.
going to give it another shot now - thanks for the heads up!

cheers,
-pete

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