From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 26 12:09:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063DE728 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:09:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller23@insightbb.com) Received: from mail.insightbb.com (smtp2.insight.synacor.com [208.47.185.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2A99D00 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:09:05 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=KKHY/S5o c=1 sm=0 a=Dm9TOXL4taQ+Gy1KovpL+A==:17 a=N5v8HT-S52sA:10 a=DvSzqBOGy98A:10 a=pedpZTtsAAAA:8 a=s21KsaEHHccA:10 a=q56oFxeYAAAA:8 a=D5h6WD5oAAAA:8 a=MESg6lBeAAAA:8 a=19HPPNmKXZuJ4B6Z_HEA:9 a=5HPQzWXiRisA:10 a=17OI-7mf-LifBJ0j:21 a=HVzWqY0vdNNdlQq0:21 a=Dm9TOXL4taQ+Gy1KovpL+A==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp01.insight.synacor.com header.from=mueller6724@bellsouth.net; sender-id=neutral Authentication-Results: smtp01.insight.synacor.com smtp.mail=mueller23@insightbb.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (smtp01.insight.synacor.com: transitional domain insightbb.com does not designate 74.130.198.7 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.130.198.7] ([74.130.198.7:36712] helo=localhost) by mail.insightbb.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.49 r(42060/42061)) with ESMTP id A0/2D-27613-A57C3015; Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:08:58 -0500 Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 07:08:58 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: sysutils/pacman: use in FreeBSD? Cc: amdmi3@andmi3.ru X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 12:09:07 -0000 >From my previous message: I see to my surprise, in http://www.freshports.org/commits.php , that pacman from Archlinux has just been ported to FreeBSD. But how would pacman be used in FreeBSD, considering we already have ports and pkgng? Would pacman in FreeBSD be only for binary packages, or would it be used with Arch Build System to build packages from source as is done with FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc? Dmitry Marakasov responded: > First, it can install ArchBSD (http://www.archbsd.net/) packages. > These are created from FreeBSD ports, so it may be used as another > binary package manager for FreeBSD. That seems quite useful to me > for setting up jails, as world is just a package there and thus the > installation is much simpler. > Second, it may be used to install original Arch linux packages, > letting you setup and manage another kind of linux environement on > FreeBSD. Hower on practice because of our outdated linuxulator it > won't work as it won't run recent linux binaries. I hope this will > be fixed in future. I browsed http://www.archbsd.net/ . It looks like that web site and the ArchBSD project are in an early stage, not yet suitable to download and install. No Arch Build System, at least not yet. I didn't have much luck running anything Linux from either FreeBSD or NetBSD. OpenBSD can't read anything on my hard drive, neither can DragonFlyBSD, although DragonFlyBSD can see my hard drive partition structure, which OpenBSD can't. Tom