HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Fri Jul 25 21:05:36 UTC 2014


On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> What I'd like to see is an article on freebsd.org either on the wiki
> or in the handbook, which compares using apt, yum, rpm, whatever
> to pkg.  Is anyone interested in working on an article like this?
> I don't have the bandwidth right now.

A person to write that article needs detailed knowledge of pkg and the 
Linux package systems.  I don't have that, but would be willing to help 
you develop an outline for the article.  Having a design like that makes 
it easier to write when time and resources are available.

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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