pkgng (Was: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?)

Chris Nehren apeiron+freebsd-stable at isuckatdomains.net
Fri Jun 1 20:09:54 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 14:50:22 -0500 , Bryan Drewery wrote:
> FWIW, there is freebsd-update(8) now for binary updating of base, and
> pkgng[1] will allow binary upgrading of packages/ports similar to apt-get.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng

The thing that really has me attracted to pkgng is that it's based on a
C library with a public API that developers can use / abuse. It's not
(AFAIK) officially released yet, but some early work I've been doing
with it has shown it to be useful enough.

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Thanks and best regards,
Chris Nehren


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