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This is great news. Pkgng is very easy to use and achieves a very good combination of binary packages and the FreeBSD ports tree when you want to compile stuff

This is great news. Pkgng is very easy to use and achieves a very good combination of binary packages and the FreeBSD ports tree when you want to compile stuff yourself. Which happens more often than expected admittedly.

justincormack 12y ago
You can already have that with pkgsrc for osx - joyent maintains the osx binary packages see http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ (pkgsrc is the NetBSD version of FreeBSD ports, but its always been portable to other systems).
- avtar 12y ago
  Hmm I didn't know that Joyent maintained their own packages for non-SmartOS platforms. The OS X packages seem to be limited to 32-bit versions and even though you didn't mention this I noticed their Linux packages seem to lag behind pkgsrc upstream. What is the advantage of using their packages over the OS X and Linux ones offered by NetBSD? https://www.pkgsrc.org/#platforms https://www.pkgsrc.org/#platforms
  - justincormack 12y ago
    AFAIK they are the only binary build at present for OSX. You can use source for 64 bit OSX of course http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/pkgsrc_64bit_osx/ http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/pkgsrc_64bit_osx/ I have generally used source not packages for non NetBSD platforms, other than when I tried out SmartOS and it is all set up. If you have a chunk of disk space, a fast computer and some time you can compile them yourself, and if someone wants to support osx 64 bit that would be great.
  - yrmt 12y ago
    I'm building fresh 64bit packages on Mac OS X Yosemite. They will be uploaded in a few days at http://pkgsrc.saveosx.org/Darwin/2014Q4/x86_64/All/ http://pkgsrc.saveosx.org/Darwin/2014Q4/x86_64/All/. Oh and they are GPG signed. Documentation at http://saveosx.org http://saveosx.org
- flomo 12y ago
  I recently installed pkgsrc for osx, and so far so good. (I've never liked the idea of installing software by compiling it.) However this project could really use some nice webpages and instructions to promote it. It seems like most Mac devs have never heard of it. And much of the info is pretty minimal and seems like it assumes you understand NetBSD packaging.
- fcambus 12y ago
  For an introduction to pkgsrc on Mac OS X, please check : http://www.cambus.net/using-pkgsrc-on-mac-os-x/ http://www.cambus.net/using-pkgsrc-on-mac-os-x/

justincormack 12y ago

You can already have that with pkgsrc for osx - joyent maintains the osx binary packages see http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ (pkgsrc is the NetBSD version of FreeBSD ports, but its always been portable to other systems).

avtar 12y ago
Hmm I didn't know that Joyent maintained their own packages for non-SmartOS platforms. The OS X packages seem to be limited to 32-bit versions and even though you didn't mention this I noticed their Linux packages seem to lag behind pkgsrc upstream. What is the advantage of using their packages over the OS X and Linux ones offered by NetBSD? https://www.pkgsrc.org/#platforms https://www.pkgsrc.org/#platforms
- justincormack 12y ago
  AFAIK they are the only binary build at present for OSX. You can use source for 64 bit OSX of course http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/pkgsrc_64bit_osx/ http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/pkgsrc_64bit_osx/ I have generally used source not packages for non NetBSD platforms, other than when I tried out SmartOS and it is all set up. If you have a chunk of disk space, a fast computer and some time you can compile them yourself, and if someone wants to support osx 64 bit that would be great.
- yrmt 12y ago
  I'm building fresh 64bit packages on Mac OS X Yosemite. They will be uploaded in a few days at http://pkgsrc.saveosx.org/Darwin/2014Q4/x86_64/All/ http://pkgsrc.saveosx.org/Darwin/2014Q4/x86_64/All/. Oh and they are GPG signed. Documentation at http://saveosx.org http://saveosx.org
flomo 12y ago
I recently installed pkgsrc for osx, and so far so good. (I've never liked the idea of installing software by compiling it.) However this project could really use some nice webpages and instructions to promote it. It seems like most Mac devs have never heard of it. And much of the info is pretty minimal and seems like it assumes you understand NetBSD packaging.
fcambus 12y ago
For an introduction to pkgsrc on Mac OS X, please check : http://www.cambus.net/using-pkgsrc-on-mac-os-x/ http://www.cambus.net/using-pkgsrc-on-mac-os-x/