[nycbug-talk] ports systems. . .

[Marc Spitzer]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 13:39:05 -0400
Marc Spitzer <mspitze1 at optonline.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 01:21:57 -0400
> "G.Rosamond" <george at sddi.net> wrote:
> 
> > <not an attempt at starting a flame war>
> > 
> > Ike and I had a long discussion this evening about ports systems. .
> > .
> > 
> > Certainly a ports system that operates on multiple platforms is 
> > desirable.
> > 
> > The clear choices in the discussion are Darwin Ports v NetBSD's
> > pkgsrc.
> > 
> > darwin ports only has 1790 ports at this point, while pkgsrc has
> > 4948.
> 
> no opinion on darwin port but some bits about pkgsrc:
> 
> 1: pkg src has a package to automatically port a simple freebsd port
> to a pkgsrc port, so the potential of quick growth of port count is
> there:
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/port2pkg/README.html
> 
> and for RPMs(did not know about this one):
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/rpm2pkg/README.html
> 
> and this

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/pkgtools/README.html

> 
> 
> 2: it works on windows, supported by the company that did SFU
> 
> > 
> > darwin ports operates on 4 platforms, pkgsrc runs on 10.
> > 
> > Certainly, the simplification of ports across platforms would be
> > hugely beneficial, although it would be hard to argue against the
> > quantity available with FBSD's ports.  Widespread use with multiple
> > platforms could mean better auditing outside of that done by the
> > developers, plus other benefits, of course.
> > 
> > Who is using Darwin ports on platforms other than OS X?  Who is
> > using pkgsrc on platforms other than NetBSD?  I know Marc S had some
> > insight
> > 
> > on pkgsrc, and expressed utter delight. . .
> > 
> > Again, this isn't about starting a flame war, but maybe we could
> > even begin to articulate the strengths and shortcomings of both
> > ports systems.
> > 
> > g
> > 
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