I also received the solicitation…

I have no knowledge (good or bad) regarding this repository.

-Keith.
On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I received the following email message that does not appear to be posted to the SL list.  Is anyone familiar with the repository mentioned below and the legitimacy thereof?
> 
> Yasha Karant
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> Hi users of EL6 based distributions,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce a new alternative binary package repository
> for EL6 x86_64.  The aim is to provide a supplemental set of packages
> which may contain software not included in your base system.
> 
> These packages are based on pkgsrc, a cross-platform package manager.
> 
> In this initial release there are 13,152 packages available.  For now
> I am specifically targetting EL6/x86_64 (the build host is CentOS 6.5)
> to see what kind of interest in this.  If there is reasonable interest
> I can produce packages for other targets based on popularity.
> 
> To install, download and unpack the bootstrap kit:
> 
>  $ curl -s http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Linux/bootstrap/bootstrap-2014Q2-el6-x86_64.tar.gz | sudo tar -zxpf - -C /
> 
> Packages are self-contained under the /usr/pkg prefix:
> 
>  $ PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/pkg/bin
>  $ MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/pkg/man
> 
> Included is the "pkgin" binary package manager, which has been
> designed to operate similar to yum/apt-get:
> 
>  # Fetch latest database
>  $ sudo pkgin update
> 
>  # Search for a package
>  $ pkgin search tmux
> 
>  # Install it
>  $ sudo pkgin install tmux
> 
>  # See what is available
>  $ pkgin avail | less
> 
> Further details and similar binary package sets for SmartOS/illumos
> and OSX can be found here:
> 
>  http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
> 
> Feedback is highly appreciated!  Let me know if there is anything we
> can do to improve these packages, or if they are unwelcome.  You can
> email me or @jperkin, or alternatively get involved in the pkgsrc
> community - our aim is to provide cross-platform packages for over 20
> different operating systems from the same source tree.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com