Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Oct 2007 14:29 UTC, submitted by irbis
"10 Years ago - on October 3rd 1997 - the pkgsrc software management system was created by Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer. pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection, was intended primarily as a packaging system for NetBSD. Derived from the FreeBSD Ports system, pkgsrc became a success story. Today, pkgsrc is a cross-platform framework, running on the BSDs, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, many Unix derivatives, and even on QNX and Windows. Ports- and pkgsrc-like software build frameworks are today standard on the BSDs and quite popular on some newer Linux distributions. In 2005 pkgsrc was adopted as the package management system for DragonFly BSD. Presently, pkgsrc provides more than 7300 stable packages. We continue the anniversary celebrations with a series of interviews: developers and users of pkgsrc and of related systems give insights into the history, the concepts, the problems and the future directions of packaging systems."
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RE: Perhaps a stupid question
by ebasconp on Fri 19th Oct 2007 22:57
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pkgsrc is not a source code repository,
pkgsrc is an entire package system created with a lot of makefiles, those makefiles are in charge to download the source code from its original repositories, compile them and install them.
DragonFly [another BSD OS] uses pkgsrc as its main package system and, thus, uses the same pkgsrc tree found in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub; so, I think DracoLinux must use the same approach.
RE[2]: Perhaps a stupid question
by Excel Hearts Choi on Fri 19th Oct 2007 23:51
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I noticed that a linux distribution (Draco Linux - www.dracolinux.org) uses pkgsrc. Does this means that Draco could use the NetBSD's repository of source code? Or would they have to maintain their own repository?