Re: Fwd: Unified BSD?
Martin <[email protected]>
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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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote: > >> Martin<martin.kelly4000@gmail.**com <[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. > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"