On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:42, David Chisnall <thera...@sucs.org> wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2011, at 15:51, Martin Dietze wrote: > > FreeBSD lets you update third-party packages independently of the core OS. > This seems much more sane than the approach of most Linux distributions, > where they try to make third-party packages conform to the distribution's > release cycle, but I suppose that's required since everything in a Linux > distribution is a third-party package. > I can install third-party .debs on Debian and Ubuntu whenever I want, and add third party repositories. In fact, as you know, Debian has unstable and testing, and even experimental. Dependency checks can cause issues, but so they can on FreeBSD, right? > > Dirk Meyer does a really good job of keeping GNUstep ports (used to build > packages on FreeBSD) up to date, so you can typically just update your > installed packages and get the latest versions of stuff. > > The gnustep port is a metaport, which just depends on a load of GNUstep > stuff. When you run this command, it grabs the latest versions and compiles > them. You can add -P to grab the binary packages if you prefer, although > this won't work for anything that's GPLv3 or has a license that prohibits > binary distribution. Since the GNUstep tools are now GPLv3, we no longer > have pre-built binaries for FreeBSD, so you need to build from ports. > > Speaking of *BSD and ports… Is anyone working on MacPorts packaging? It looks abandoned. I tried to set up a local MacPorts repository and update the Portfile, but I'm confused by how Portfile specifies where to get .tar.gz from. Overall, I'm not sure how the entire system works. -- Regards, Ivan Vučica
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