Excerpts from Larry Siden's message of Tue Mar 15 13:47:42 -0400 2011: Hi Larry,
> For example, the mirror http://download.blastwave.org/csw/unstable has git > 1.6.3, while the SunFreeware mirror You likely want to grab the pkgutil and/or pkg-get from http://opencsw.org/get-it. They will have OpenCSW mirrors set by default, not blastwave ones. You'll get git 1.7.3.2 from us. I hope to have 1.7.4.1 out the door soon but have been tied up with other things. > ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freewarehas Git 1.7.4. The mirror > http://download.blastwave.org/csw/stable doesn't even contain git! The pkg-get tool is designed to be compatible with the sunfreeware catalog, but that's not a design goal for pkgutil, afaik. > OTOH, the blastwave mirror has many PHP modules, while the > SunFreeware mirror site has only different versions of php and no > php-cli. OpenCSW has a good php stack too...an update is in the works for it right now. > Why does each have such different coverage? Are they targeted at > different use cases (for example webservers vs something else)? Different people with different needs, most likely. Most maintainers in OpenCSW package things they use/need themselves. That explains much of the difference. You should find that the OpenCSW (and to a good extent Blastwave) provide a more integrated set of packages than sunfreeware as the philosophies differ. (This isn't a knock on sunfreeware in any way.) > Can I mix and match packages from each without creating conflicts? You could run a daemon from one with a client from another, but you cannot share libraries between them in any sane fashion. HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/users
