HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Jul 26 00:03:19 UTC 2014
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
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> 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:
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> >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.
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> Indeed, it's pretty trivial.
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> I think the sort of article Craig was looking for was more on the
> order of
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> apt command pkg command
> apt-get update pkg update (*1)
> ... ...
>
> (*1) Explanation of differences between how apt behaves and how pkg
> behaves.
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> The set of common apt operations is pretty well-known, and most of
> them have direct pkg(8) equivalents.
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> Garrett is describing exactly what I am looking for.
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> 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.
This gave me a flashback to the last time somebody said "Oh, I just want
a simple little program." :)
> 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.
The wiki should be ideal for this. Start a table, fill in what you can,
and others can fill in the other parts.
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