Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 16:34:20 -0700 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg? Message-ID: <CAG=rPVdzHd0_DGrg1nEG5h0he%2BhVnr-vjsYZVmS9hNRBGCAL0Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201407252126.s6PLQ5G2086889@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> References: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188@wonkity.com> <CAG=rPVcyqq2072%2BgF_X91BocxykJB6%2BU0cMhaNexxfVFpVqUbA@mail.gmail.com> <CAG=rPVfBcci_fqAKW4j530QVY-OALu51ZjtVoM5n%2BmPg=LJLXQ@mail.gmail.com> <201407252126.s6PLQ5G2086889@hergotha.csail.mit.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Wollman < wollman@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote: > In article <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188@wonkity.com> you write: > > >Writing "an article" is hard. Writing a small section on how deleting > >packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier. The > >scope is known. > > Indeed, it's pretty trivial. > > I think the sort of article Craig was looking for was more on the > order of > > apt command pkg command > apt-get update pkg update (*1) > ... ... > > (*1) Explanation of differences between how apt behaves and how pkg > behaves. > > The set of common apt operations is pretty well-known, and most of > them have direct pkg(8) equivalents. > Hi, Garrett is describing exactly what I am looking for. I'm not looking for a complicated article explaining the internal differences between apt and pkg. Very few people have the interest or patience to read that. Providing a simple table contrasting the basic apt/yum/rpm/pkg commands for installing/upgrading/deleting packages is mostly what is needed. We need to show people that installing packages on FreeBSD is not like the "bad old pkg_add days" which people have bad memories of. We need to show that pkg is as good as what people are used to on modern Linux distributions. I have less experience with OS X, but if we can show people that pkg is as good as (or better than) MacPorts or Homebrew for installing third-party packages, that would be great as well, but focusing on Linux first would be good. -- Craig
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