From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 3 09:33:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33595106564A; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B538FC08; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBEA6B.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.234.107]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p839Xm2h020314; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:33:49 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p839XgMC067942; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 11:33:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p839XbAu015390; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:33:43 GMT (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201109030933.p839XbAu015390@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Baptiste Daroussin From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:21:18 +0200." <20110903082118.GA89220@azathoth.lan> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:33:37 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports system quality X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 09:33:52 -0000 Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > > > From: "Julian H. Stacey" =20 > > > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200=20 > > > Message-id: <201109020107.p8217eFJ089679@fire.js.berklix.net>=20 > >=20 > > I wrote: > > > Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, maybe Solaris & presumably > > > even now http://www.minix3.org free source enthusiasts reinventing > > > similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party wheels:.=20 > >=20 > > FYI: > > http://www.minix3.org -> > > http://wiki.minix3.org/en/UsersGuide/InstallingBinaryPackages -> > > http://pkgin.net/ > > " > > pkgin is known to work and have been tested under the following platforms= > : > > * NetBSD 4.0 > > * NetBSD 5.{0,1} > > * NetBSD current > > * DragonFly BSD 2.0 to 2.8 > > * DragonFly BSD current > > * Solaris 10/SunOS 5.10 > > * Opensolaris/SunOS 5.11 > > * Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 > > * Mac OS X 10.{5,6} > > * MINIX 3.1.8 > > " > >=20 > > No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin . > > I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation. > >=20 > > Cheers, > > Julian > > pkgin is mostly driven by a single person, I really know well pkgin, becaus= > e I > ported it to FreeBSD in the past. There are patches from Minix and Dragonfly > users, but through mostly things are done by the original author, and to he= > lp > portability but no much. > I have picked up some ideas from pkgin for pkgng and the last version of pk= > gin > picked up some idea from pkgng. (Me and Emile Heitor - the author of pkgin - > discuss and share ideas quite often about pkgin and pkgng) > > regards, > Bapt OK :-) Suggestion: If He make some note about FreeBSD/pkgng on his page would help, you could both cross link a See Also type href. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct.