[nycbug-talk] ports [was re: BSD on a desktop]

[Pete Wright]

Okan Demirmen wrote:

>On Sun 2004.08.01 at 10:58 -0500, Pete Wright wrote:
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>>i don't have the ports tree 
>>installed on any of my OpenBSD machines right now, how do they handle 
>>the download and extracting of source code?
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>not sure exactly what the question is, but the infrastructure grabs the
>source from MASTER_SITES, checks distinfo (md5/rmd160/sha1), then 
>extracts into the workdir - just like the other porting systems....it
>is just that openbsd does this as a normal user, as does pkgsrc.
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>not sure if i answered the question i didn't get ;)
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cool, so it all seems pretty similar.  just wanted to make sure i wasn't 
missing some obvious.  thanks!

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>>Also, I thought NetBSD used pkgsrc tho, while OpenBSD uses a FreeBSD 
>>ports.  man 7 ports(OpenBSD):
>>" The OpenBSD Ports Collection (shamelessly stolen from the FreeBSD Ports
>>    Collection) offers a simple way for users and administrators to install
>>    applications."
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>true, initially, but it has changed quite a bit since then...
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yea no doubt.  fortunately it does not seem too hard for admins to 
modify FreeBSD to be closer the behavior you pointed out...which is 
probably one of those good things ;^)


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