Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:41:18 +0200 From: "Gueven Bay" <gueven.bay@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports vs Pkgsrc Message-ID: <13413b8f0710112141q808db01l4fb334bdb292a2ae@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20071012040658.GA19309@brisbane> References: <20071012040658.GA19309@brisbane>
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2007/10/12, Mak Kolybabi <mak@mogigoma.com>: > Would anyone be able to either offer a link, or explain the differences between > NetBSD/DragonflyBSD's pkgsrc and FreeBSD/OpenBSD's ports systems? Google > searches such as 'pkgsrc vs ports' have yielded nothing satisfying. > > -- > Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) > <mak@mogigoma.com> > The only diff for me is: pkgsrc is workable on other than BSD systems. For example you can use it on Solaris or Linux - I say that it(the portability) is typical for a third party software package system from the NetBSD project - . So far I know is the ports tree not (at least not without pain) usable on other systems. And so far I read is pkgsrc a derivative of ports - but this can be very well bull -. The technical differences (configure files, standard dirs etc. etc.) you have look up part for part in the docs. I hope I could help you. regards Gueven
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