Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > Hi, > > Reference: > > > From: "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com>=20 > > > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200=20 > > > Message-id: <201109020107.p8217efj089...@fire.js.berklix.net>=20 > >=20 > > I wrote: > > > Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, maybe Solaris & presumably > > > even now http://www.minix3.org free source enthusiasts reinventing > > > similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party wheels:.=20 > >=20 > > FYI: > > http://www.minix3.org -> > > http://wiki.minix3.org/en/UsersGuide/InstallingBinaryPackages -> > > http://pkgin.net/ > > " > > pkgin is known to work and have been tested under the following platforms= > : > > * NetBSD 4.0 > > * NetBSD 5.{0,1} > > * NetBSD current > > * DragonFly BSD 2.0 to 2.8 > > * DragonFly BSD current > > * Solaris 10/SunOS 5.10 > > * Opensolaris/SunOS 5.11 > > * Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 > > * Mac OS X 10.{5,6} > > * MINIX 3.1.8 > > " > >=20 > > No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin . > > I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation. > >=20 > > Cheers, > > Julian > > pkgin is mostly driven by a single person, I really know well pkgin, becaus= > e I > ported it to FreeBSD in the past. There are patches from Minix and Dragonfly > users, but through mostly things are done by the original author, and to he= > lp > portability but no much. > I have picked up some ideas from pkgin for pkgng and the last version of pk= > gin > picked up some idea from pkgng. (Me and Emile Heitor - the author of pkgin - > discuss and share ideas quite often about pkgin and pkgng) > > regards, > Bapt
OK :-) Suggestion: If He make some note about FreeBSD/pkgng on his page would help, you could both cross link a See Also type href. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org 17th Sept, http://berklix.org/sfd/ Oct. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
