Michael's Daemonic Doodles

...blogging bits of BSD

Trusted Package Distribution with pkgng

pkgng is FreeBSD's new approach to replace its aging pkg_* utility infrastructure. In this post I'll show how to set up a private package repository and - after applying a patch to libfetch - use SSL certificates to establish bidirectional trust. This is on top of pkgng's existing repository signing mechanism, which I will cover at the end of this post.

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