Re: Some package compilation help
Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:02:53 -0500 Tim Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > I am very familiar with Gentoo's package distribution, [...] > My question is, is there something similar in NetBSD? NetBSD is devided into the base system and additional software from 3rd parties. The later is managed by pkgsrc, a system similar to that from gentoo. (In fact the basic idea behind the gentoo system is taken from pkgsrc.) The usual way is to get the source for the base system and pkgsrc via anonymous CVS and rebuild everything. The base system can be cross build. There is a stable / release branch of the base system. Only bug fixes go into that branch. And there is -current, the developement branch of the base system. Here you get all new features but you have to be prepared for instabilities. Pkgsrc is branched for a stable tree every three mounths. Here is more information about this topics: http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/ http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/updating.html http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/