Adding FreeBSD packages
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With the move to PBIs I see that the older FreeBSD package system has been removed. We can no longer use pkg_add.
I assume we should now use pbi_add but there isn't a PBI repo configured so where should we point it? I have used PC-BSD 10s repo but it's 64bit only which is limiting, for me at least, and PBIs from there don't really seem to install 100% correctly. Unsurprising since they're not built for pfSense.
Personally I needed to install flashrom for a BIOS update but this must apply in many situations.
Any comments on this would be appreciated.Steve
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That's actually the move to pkgng in FreeBSD 10, unrelated to PBIs. The old pkg_* tools are gone in 10. If you run just "pkg", it'll prompt to install the remainder of pkgng, after which you can "pkg install" instead lf "pkg_add -r".
Steve knows what he's doing, but a warning to others: be very careful if you touch pkg, it's quite possible to break things and/or create security vulnerabilities depending on what you're doing.
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@cmb:
Steve knows what he's doing
See you say that but I'm not sure, based on this thread at least. ::)
Anyway that's much easier and works much better. Takes a long time to update the package list initially though.
Thanks.Steve
