pkgsrc
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| Developer(s) | Alistair Crooks, Hubert Feyrer and Johnny C. Lam[1] |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1997 |
| Stable release | 2016Q3
/ October 3, 2016 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C, sh |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Type | Package management |
| 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, later followed by support for other operating systems. DragonFly BSD, from release 1.4 to 3.4, used pkgsrc as its official packaging system.[2] MINIX 3 and the Dracolinux distribution both include pkgsrc in their main releases.[3]
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 APT or yum.[4]
pkgsrc currently contains over 17000 packages (over 20000 including work-in-progress packages maintained outside the official tree) and includes most popular open source software. It now supports around 23 operating systems, including AIX, various BSD derivatives, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and QNX.[5]
Platforms supported by pkgsrc
| Platform | Date Support Added |
|---|---|
| NetBSD | August 1997 |
| Solaris | March 1999 |
| Linux | June 1999 |
| Darwin and Mac OS X | October 2001 |
| FreeBSD | November 2002 |
| OpenBSD | November 2002 |
| IRIX | December 2002 |
| BSD/OS | December 2003 |
| AIX | December 2003 |
| Interix (for Windows NT) | March 2004 |
| DragonFlyBSD | October 2004 |
| OSF/1 | November 2004 |
| HP-UX | April 2007 |
| QNX | October 2007 |
| Haiku | January 2010 |
| MINIX 3 | August 2010 |
| MirBSD | January 2011 |
| illumos | February 2011 |
| Cygwin | May 2013 |
| GNU/kFreeBSD | July 2013 |
| Bitrig | June 2015 |
References
- ^ "10 years of pkgsrc - pkgsrc and the concepts of package management 1997-2007 (part 1)". www.netbsd.org. The NetBSD Foundation. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
- ^ Dillon, Matthew. "PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release". DragonFly users mailing list.
- ^ "This release features kernel 3.0.57, Glibc 2.11.3, GCC 4.4.7, OSS 4.2 and pkgsrc 2012Q3". DracoLinux.
- ^ "pkgin, a binary package manager for pkgsrc".
- ^ "Announcing the pkgsrc-2016Q2 Branch".
External links
- Official website
- A web interface for pkgsrc
- pkgsrc-wip – a project to get more people actively involved with pkgsrc
- pkgsrcCon: An annual conference focusing on pkgsrc
