HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 25 23:34:23 UTC 2014
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Wollman <
wollman at hergotha.csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188 at wonkity.com> you write:
>
> >Writing "an article" is hard. Writing a small section on how deleting
> >packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier. The
> >scope is known.
>
> Indeed, it's pretty trivial.
>
> I think the sort of article Craig was looking for was more on the
> order of
>
> apt command pkg command
> apt-get update pkg update (*1)
> ... ...
>
> (*1) Explanation of differences between how apt behaves and how pkg
> behaves.
>
> The set of common apt operations is pretty well-known, and most of
> them have direct pkg(8) equivalents.
>
Hi,
Garrett is describing exactly what I am looking for.
I'm not looking for a complicated article explaining the internal
differences between apt and pkg. Very few people have the
interest or patience to read that.
Providing a simple table contrasting the basic apt/yum/rpm/pkg commands
for installing/upgrading/deleting packages is mostly what is needed.
We need to show people that installing packages on FreeBSD is
not like the "bad old pkg_add days" which people have bad memories of. We
need to show that pkg is as good as what people are used to on modern Linux
distributions.
I have less experience with OS X, but if we can show people that
pkg is as good as (or better than) MacPorts or Homebrew for installing
third-party packages, that would be great as well, but focusing on Linux
first would be good.
--
Craig
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