http://www.osnews.com/story/10503/DarwinPorts_2500_OSS_Titles_for_Darwin_Mac_OS_X Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 26 May 2013 08:41:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? I'd love Darwinports to death if it'd .. work.. I've tried it several times, but usually i have problems compiling one of the applications I need. I so far never managed to install Gnome, one of the packages always refused to compile, lately i've had problems compililing xine, which worked before;
I wonder if my OS X is just fucked, but then again i've tried it on 3 different machines (iBook, G5, Mac Mini) and there were always compile problems;
(and yeah, stable apps too)

Why when I'm at work (where most of our servers and my desktop run Gentoo), compiling always works flawlessly.

Well, I'll try 1.0 now nevertheless, maybe I've just had bad cvs releases... Wed, 04 May 2005 17:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Wow this does sound like a very cool initiative. I had never heard of DawinPorts before. Good stuff apparently. Wed, 04 May 2005 17:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? where does this leave fink? Wed, 04 May 2005 18:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? My experience has been that Fink has never worked very well -- pkgsrc, however, did. Wed, 04 May 2005 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Actually, I've not had much in the way of problems with Fink. I've not used DarwinPorts nor the Gentoo attempt. This is mostly due to fink being the first I've tried so I stuck with it.

On the other hand, fink has about 5000 packages in its repository, so if it is selection you need, darwinports may not have it.

From my understanding both fink & darwinports put all of their software in one directory so as not to screw up your system. I'm not sure the gentoo folks do the same. Perhaps someone can throw in their 2 cents. Wed, 04 May 2005 19:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? From my understanding both fink & darwinports put all of their software in one directory so as not to screw up your system.

Fink puts everything under the /sw directory, but AFAIK, DarwinPorts uses /usr/local, much like a typical BSD ports system does. Wed, 04 May 2005 20:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Generally I've found that Darwinports has more up-to-date and multimedia ports than fink, although I haven't tried the source fink distribution yet.

The main reason I use DarwinPorts however is because it works in a more BSD style manner in comparison to fink's Linux way. No real difference, simply a preference.

DarwinPorts installed first time for me, just followed the instructions and very simple. Compile times seem quite long on my Powerbook 1.33Ghz though. Wed, 04 May 2005 20:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Have you tried XinePlayer?

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17492 Wed, 04 May 2005 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Each has its pros and cons. With Fink you don't have to build every package yourself, but it takes them ages to transition packages from unstable (source-based) to stable (binary-based). I like DP more, but it forces me to build everything, which is needlessly tedious.

Oh, also, DP is pretty broken for Tiger:
http://www.opendarwin.org/pipermail/darwinports/2005-May/025621.htm... Wed, 04 May 2005 20:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? There are a lot of broken packages on Tiger. At the moment, Fink seems to run fine on Tiger, so that's what I'm using. If you're on Tiger, fink is pretty much the only choice for now. Wed, 04 May 2005 21:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? DarwinPorts uses /opt/local as least last time I tried (a couple months ago), it does not interfere with /usr/local. It also worked great, in my experience (maybe KDE did not compile correctly but others were fine). More packages than Fink I think, but at least I didn't see how to get binaries. Also includes Aqua apps like Adium and Cyberduck (although there's not much point in getting those off DarwinPorts), and frameworks, like SDL and things (maybe Fink does too but I'm sure that DarwinPorts does). Thu, 05 May 2005 04:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Same thing here. In fact, i first started with fink, and then moved to darwinports. The great thing about darwinport is the direct integration in the main filesystem and i definitely love it. But as in your case, i did experience a lot of broken ports. And have a port crashing after an hour of various dependencies compiling is tiring...

Upgrading to Tiger, i suppose i'll switch back again to fink. Hopefully, darwinports will become more reliable with time. It is a pretty nice system. Thu, 05 May 2005 08:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? Installed Darwinports yesterday... tried two ports and both of them simply were broken...
Moving to greener pastures. Thu, 05 May 2005 11:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? I'got no problem with Darwinports.
And in comparison with fink everything seems much cleaner and simpler...well like BSD vs Linux Thu, 05 May 2005 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread? http://www.osnews.com/thread? to be Tiger, Tiger breaks things left and right, darwinports is not the exception it is the rule, the same goes for Gentoo. Fri, 06 May 2005 16:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments