From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Oct 19 14:34:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FEF737B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5CD443E91 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:34:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AFF51F640048; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:34:45 -0700 Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:35:16 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openpkg Message-Id: <20021019143516.3fe09d2d.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20021019212309.GA7993@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20021019141922.36ff5429.chip@wiegand.org> <20021019212309.GA7993@xor.obsecurity.org> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway wrote this stuff back on Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:23:09 -0700: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 02:19:22PM -0700, Chip Wiegand wrote: > > I was just reading SysAdmin article about OpenPKG, it says FreeBSD > > 4.x fully supports this package management system. I can't find any > > info on the FreeBSD web site. Any used it yet? > > Someone is incorrect..OpenPKG may support FreeBSD, but the converse is > not true. FreeBSD still uses its existing ports/package system. > > Kris On page 8 of the Nov issue in the article is a table with a list of OS's that supposedly support OpenPKG, and FreeBSD 4.x is listed as full support, and FreeBSD 5.0 as partial support. -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message