Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:02:20 +0100 From: John Marino <netbsd@marino.st> To: Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru> Cc: misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, users@dragonflybsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Unified BSD? Message-ID: <50BDAE0C.90303@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <87wqwyuyxb.fsf@inbox.ru> References: <CAOc%2B9seWtWaw=bx%2BKwjKXjULArijgcvbDR1gi_J%2BSQkFfsHTCA@mail.gmail.com> <CAHKF-AuR4mU_CYj%2BD0nTe=hsja7MGemvx%2BSDi-692n5d0Tau4Q@mail.gmail.com> <1352882728.28075.140661153435965.302F0E4C@webmail.messagingengine.com> <CALHSF8v8juYAXdinL9tVzz98aJP2TZgOsuAQr4bWkaBm0TCMnQ@mail.gmail.com> <87a9tw5qju.fsf@inbox.ru> <CALHSF8tZAcNAmNyFbrUhAHNKCzGnescpasjAUmkXfmD1djyq9Q@mail.gmail.com> <CALHSF8sLQvuROh_4Hsi2FKyEuRmg8Jv_u-X_rSRWD6h5MiaOLA@mail.gmail.com> <87wqwyuyxb.fsf@inbox.ru>
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On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote: > Martin<martin.kelly4000@gmail.com> 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.
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