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Re: Portability of Linux


Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:24:18 -0700 (PDT)

Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
>
> Ahh... I used FreeBSD... Does this thing exists on that one to, or is it a
> NetBSD thing? Hmmm... Shouldn't be... Ah, well... I probably didn't look hard
> enouch, did I... :)
>
> Thanx... This is going to make my reinstall easier.
>

"pkg_add" exists on FreeBSD.

>From the man page:

>pkg_add(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual pkg_add(1)
>
>NAME
> pkg_add - a utility for installing software package distributions.
>
... (snip) ...

>AUTHORS
> Jordan Hubbard
> Initial work and ongoing development.
> John Kohl
> NetBSD refinements.
>
>BUGS
> Hard links between files in a distribution are only preserved if either
> (1) the staging area is on the same file system as the target directory
> of all the links to the file, or (2) all the links to the file are brack-
> eted by @cwd directives in the contents file, and and the link names are
> extracted with a single tar command (not split between invocations due to
> exec argument-space limitations--this depends on the value returned by
> sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX)).
>
> Sure to be others.
>
>FreeBSD 2.0 November 25, 1994 3

Looks like it's been around for quite some time. I seem to recall
using it in FreeBSD version 2.1. It most certainly exists in
FreeBSD 2.2.2 (which I'm currently using).

I kind of prefer the "ports" method myself.

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