From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 05:08:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5FF16A41B for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gueven.bay@googlemail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1CC13C457 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gueven.bay@googlemail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so1531145pyb for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:08:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=BkOU9rr10pRSEcKLOOC42JtrP7kaW3g/mlQbHs3j6TQ=; b=aAmGg3osY49rycnEoZXsYmuwBdGheZ83QZQhzrwYpmXKEGMmoPhr7SOybhqz6ZqjMGE+V3E9GGe6sl0chIZYk3bV0DGjrTqu0YjhwnnSY9itzDdNHCuReiyB0mjyJ6i1A58G/yv2oV6PXLyCgjmpP1N3dnGfrxgBVp/De48YX90= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B5Go6DaEQ4B50CqS9gcatIZwtELLMBlBblNlp73pbh+7bsDU+lq5X4lki+D0xSm2hO5UnmfevOH7KL4NEagOJ0mHnR8ud3t5bSjgWhkN+rHEsYV5HxWbhv3a6A5KwZi0tCtWdQ8zxN3q0Qw+h4km2uYHv8n7BpQYCv9phlSOYOs= Received: by 10.35.83.20 with SMTP id k20mr3178588pyl.1192164079046; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:41:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.103.17 with HTTP; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <13413b8f0710112141q808db01l4fb334bdb292a2ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:41:18 +0200 From: "Gueven Bay" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071012040658.GA19309@brisbane> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071012040658.GA19309@brisbane> Subject: Re: Ports vs Pkgsrc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 05:08:34 -0000 2007/10/12, Mak Kolybabi : > 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) > > 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