I have no experience with it on Linux, but neither Joyent nor pkgsrc
are new to me on illumos.

You should probably expect things to work well and correctly after a
fashion, though TBH I'd prefer it if the pkgsrc "packages" were
playing in the RPM sandbox, but that's an implementation detail more
than a trust question. :)

- Rich

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Keith Chadwick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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