From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 4 14:54:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40C0EB for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 14:54:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin.kelly4000@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com (mail-oa0-f54.google.com [209.85.219.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C6A8FC08 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 14:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n9so5164907oag.13 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:54:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=0hO+MTxQQl9KyCFIyFQ+vGgOLgdp2snLKG5Rj8mFZJU=; b=ZrjHo/sYQNY38SYaq5FM11hSIHFMHILsM0mEtS6AX7qI0wRHx870Lskurlg5R5DhRh XO19Mmj1yOnDQcp3U6Na6Xg3qXEoqy77lpz5dMYQi80dyKEshQJHSjUEFuwdwbIFN/3N 7cRZYi0YzgROv5sWg5EBoRcJBExjMf2n/TJWZrzBr+jNZpdvXd0qI6VXtflZD/RzXO4H GpK2mbgrqD1YwQKAmHx3vG7S86pEDm+tDPg8kjn4PzuYMl/z1UK0DoJICBpCllsggZ0S 0r5llpkPmHqWg+j/drZCFuGORiYCgacuTL3ZIdeZ6mD/3MQ8vmZpqJe2NsAjCk9ux76s vu5Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.1.164 with SMTP id 4mr11413280oen.47.1354632852109; Tue, 04 Dec 2012 06:54:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.60.76.233 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Dec 2012 06:54:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50BDAE0C.90303@marino.st> References: <1352882728.28075.140661153435965.302F0E4C@webmail.messagingengine.com> <87a9tw5qju.fsf@inbox.ru> <87wqwyuyxb.fsf@inbox.ru> <50BDAE0C.90303@marino.st> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 01:54:11 +1100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fwd: Unified BSD? From: Martin To: John Marino Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: users@dragonflybsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Aleksej Saushev , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:54:13 -0000 I understand that, what your not getting is that i am talking about the release schedule of the individual BSD distros not the release schedule of pkgsrc. On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:02 PM, John Marino wrote: > On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote: > >> Martin> >> writes: >> >> I can see how you could misunderstand what i said. >>> >>> My point was about that each of the BSD's use pkgsrc in a different way >>> and >>> the releases from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or DflyBSD don't all rely on >>> the >>> exact same packages for every release (i.e. NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9 do not >>> use the same version of GNOME-2 desktop; poor example), and that >>> generally >>> per BSD release they generally blob the binaries that are compatible for >>> that release together. >>> >> >> No, pkgsrc is one for everyone, unless someone maintains his own branch. >> As far as I know, only DragonFly and SmartOS do, though nothing serious >> stops them from using original distribution. Thus NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9 >> use >> the same version of GNOME, provided that they use supported pkgsrc branch. >> > > > DragonFly has a git mirror mirror of the pkgsrc cvs repository, but its > contents are identical to what is in cvs. I would not classify this as > "maintaining its own branch". We use the same distribution as NetBSD. > > Just clarifying this statement to avoid misinformation. >