Re: Fwd: Unified BSD?
John Marino <[email protected]>
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On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote: > Martin<[email protected]> 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.