Software:pkgsrc
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| Developer(s) | Alistair Crooks, Hubert Feyrer and Johnny C. Lam[1] |
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| Initial release | January 4, 1998 |
| Stable release | 2020Q2 (30 June 2020) [±][2] |
| Written in | C, Unix shell |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Package management system |
| License | BSD License |
| Website | www |
pkgsrc (package source) is a package management system for Unix-like operating systems. It was forked from the FreeBSD ports collection in 1997 as the primary package management system for NetBSD. Since then it has evolved independently; in 1999, support for Solaris was added, followed by support for other operating systems.[3]
pkgsrc currently contains over 22,000 packages and includes most popular open-source software. It is the native package manager on NetBSD, SmartOS and MINIX 3, and is portable across 23 different operating systems, including AIX, various BSD derivatives, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux,[4] macOS,[5] Solaris, and QNX.[6]
There are multiple ways to install programs using pkgsrc. The pkgsrc bootstrap contains a traditional ports collection that utilizes a series of makefiles to compile software from source. Another method is to install pre-built binary packages via the pkg_add and pkg_delete tools. A high-level utility named pkgin also exists, and is designed to automate the installation, removal, and update of binary packages in a manner similar to Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool.[7]
Several vendors, including MNX.io, provide binary packages for popular operating systems, including macOS and Linux.[5][4]
Supported platforms
| Platform | Date added |
|---|---|
| NetBSD | October 1997 |
| Solaris | March 1999 |
| Linux | June 1999 |
| Darwin and macOS | October 2001 |
| FreeBSD | November 2002 |
| OpenBSD | November 2002 |
| IRIX | December 2002 |
| BSD/OS | December 2003 |
| AIX | December 2003 |
| Interix (for Windows NT) | March 2004 |
| DragonFly BSD | October 2004 |
| OSF/1 | November 2004 |
| HP-UX | April 2007 |
| QNX | October 2007 |
| Haiku | January 2010 |
| MINIX 3 | August 2010 |
| MirBSD | January 2011 |
| illumos and SmartOS | February 2011 |
| Cygwin | May 2013 |
| GNU/kFreeBSD | July 2013 |
| Bitrig | June 2015 |
History
On October 3, 1997, NetBSD developers Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer created pkgsrc[1] based on the FreeBSD ports system and intended to support the NetBSD packages collection. It was officially released as part of NetBSD 1.3[8] on January 4, 1998. DragonFly BSD used pkgsrc as its official package system from version 1.4 in 2006, to 3.4 in 2013.[9][3]
On 2017-09-12, a commit message policy that accommodates DVCS was established by the project.[10]
Packages
The NetBSD Foundation provides official, pre-built binary packages for multiple combinations of NetBSD and pkgsrc releases, and occasionally for certain other operating systems as well.[11]
As of 2018, several vendors provide pre-built binary packages for several platforms:
- Since at least 2014,[12] Joyent has provided binary packages for SmartOS/illumos, macOS,[5] and Enterprise Linux (CentOS/Oracle/Red Hat/Scientific).[4][12] Packages are provided on a rolling release basis from the trunk (HEAD, in CVS terminology) of pkgsrc, with updates every few days;[5] additionally, quarterly stable releases of pkgsrc for Joyent's own SmartOS are also provided (dating back to 2012Q4).[13]
- Since 2017,[14] University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee has provided binary packages for NetBSD, RHEL/CentOS, and Darwin/macOS.[15][16] Packages are only built from the quarterly releases of pkgsrc, aiding use in long-term experiments, where stability and reproducibility of the findings is of the essence.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "10 years of pkgsrc - pkgsrc and the concepts of package management 1997-2007 (part 1)". www.netbsd.org. The NetBSD Foundation. https://www.netbsd.org/gallery/10years.html#alcrooks.
- ↑ Thomas Klausner (2020-06-30). "pkgsrc-2020Q2 released". pkgsrc-users@ (Mailing list). Software:NetBSD.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 David Chisnall (2006-10-06). "NetBSD: Not Just for Toasters". Prentice Hall Professional. http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly/655422.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Joyent Packages Documentation - Install On Linux". Joyent. http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-linux/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Joyent Packages Documentation - Install On macOS". Joyent. http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/.
- ↑ Perkin, Jonathan (2018-10-05). "Announcing the pkgsrc-2018Q3 release". NetBSD. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2018/10/05/msg027525.html.
- ↑ "pkgin, a binary package manager for pkgsrc". http://pkgin.net/.
- ↑ "Information about NetBSD 1.3". //www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-1.3/.
- ↑ Dillon, Matthew (2005-08-31). "PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release". DragonFly users mailing list. https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-08/msg00347.html.
- ↑ Thomas Klausner (2017-09-12). "pkgsrc Commit Message Policy". pkgsrc-users@ (Mailing list). NetBSD. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
- ↑ "Index of pub/PKGSRC/Packages/". http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Joyent's packages, available for SmartOS/illumos, Linux, and OSX". http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/.
- ↑ "Index of /Packages/". http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Re: Pkgsrc binary packages now available for scientific computing". pkgsrc-users (Mailing list). NetBSD. 2017-08-01. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
- ↑ "mirror1.hpc.uwm.edu/pkgsrc/". http://mirror1.hpc.uwm.edu/pkgsrc/packages/sharedapps/.
- ↑ "Software Management". University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, High Performance Computing dept. https://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/.
External links
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- A web interface for pkgsrc
- pkgsrc-wip – a project to get more people actively involved with pkgsrc
- pkgsrcCon: An annual conference focusing on pkgsrc
- pkgsrc binary packages for SmartOS/illumos, macOS and Linux from Joyent
- /r/pkgsrc on Reddit
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