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

[Pete Wright]

Okan Demirmen wrote:

>
>anyway, i'm not here to start a war or anything, but i just want to
>point that out on openbsd. now, it's been a while for me on netbsd, so
>i'm sure someone will clarify for us what netbsd does...i'm sure it's
>close or similar to openbsd's build infrastructure.
>
>  
>
yea that is YANTAO (yet another nice thing about Obsd ;).  You can 
achieve similar results, if you are a member of the group wheel, by 
allowing wheel to write to the ports tree.  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?

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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