Yes, FreeBSD and OpenBSD (and I assume NetBSD) have a package
manager that does dependency checking. No, nothing comes close
to apt.
In FreeBSD, there are "official" pre-compiled packages for
each -RELEASE (-RELEASE is basically a snapshot of -STABLE that's
been cut to CDs you can purchase) and -STABLE:
For FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE, the official packages are at
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.0-release
For FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE, the official packages are at
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.0-stable
The main package management commands are:
pkg_add
pkg_delete
pkg_info
For example, if you do a pkg_add on a package that depends
on another package that is not installed, pkg_add will
auto-install the other package first.
Also, when you're in the ports tree and you do a "make;
make install", the "make install" command will actually
update the package management database, just as if you
had done "pkg_add foo-1.0.tgz".
D
* On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:27:18AM -0700, der.hans wrote:
> Am 19. Jul, 2000 schwäzte plugOarcticmail.com so:
>
> >
> > And in FreeBSD (OpenBSD stole the ports method from FreeBSD,
> > so you can probably do the same in OpenBSD), do:
> >
> > make package
> >
> > after "make install", and now you have a binary package
> > file that you can simply "pkg_add <packagename>" on your
> > other boxes, without having to download/extract/patch/compile
> > over and over.
>
> Does this do dependency checking like apt? That and the fact that you can
> get "official" binary packages (with some sort of quality control) are the
> things that are really killer on debian for me. Being able to
> automagically build from downloaded source is also cool, but a feature I
> really haven't needed.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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