[cs615asa] FreeBSD, NetBSD pkg_src?

Rob Williams rwillia2 at stevens.edu
Mon Feb 13 13:59:42 EST 2012


Thanks for the quick reply. OK, I had a feeling FreeBSD was not using
pkg_src, although the commands are very similar. So should we use the
native pkg_* tools, then subsequently install from source (or binary?)
using pkg_src on FreeBSD like with the Linux systems?

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Jan Schaumann <jschauma at stevens.edu> wrote:
> Rob Williams <rwillia2 at stevens.edu> wrote:
>
>> For FreeBSD and NetBSD, are we supposed to use pkg_src to install the
>> programs from source, like the other 3 instances? Or is it not
>> necessary since they use the binary versions of pkg_src already.
>
> NetBSD uses pkgsrc as the default package management system, and as you
> probably have discovered by now, there are binary packages available for
> NetBSD, so you can use those.
>
> FreeBSD does not use pkgsrc as the default package management system.
> Use their package manager instead (using either binary packages or
> building from source).
>
> -Jan
>
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