Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 01:54:11 +1100 From: Martin <martin.kelly4000@gmail.com> To: John Marino <netbsd@marino.st> Cc: users@dragonflybsd.org, misc@openbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org, Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Unified BSD? Message-ID: <CALHSF8vAJ=PUC_a9UXwQR5qWN7KeZwiGWQXqoCsJAOQeu%2BO8sg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50BDAE0C.90303@marino.st> 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> <50BDAE0C.90303@marino.st>
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I understand that, what your not getting is that i am talking about the release schedule of the individual BSD distros not the release schedule of pkgsrc. On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:02 PM, John Marino <netbsd@marino.st> wrote: > On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote: > >> Martin<martin.kelly4000@gmail.**com <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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