From freebsd-questions Wed Apr 08 19:52:06 2020 From: Polytropon Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:52:06 +0000 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Question (fwd) Message-Id: <20200408215206.c270316b.freebsd () edvax ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freebsd-questions&m=158637554400898 On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 20:08:17 +0100, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 19:25, Polytropon wrote: > > > > On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 18:10:59 +0000 (UTC), Viktor Madarasz wrote: > > > Well the only thing it reminds me is the system slackware used called > > > Slackbuilds.. seems remotely similar.. > > > > Yes, there is (was?) something comparable over in Linux land. > > If I remember correctly, Gentoo also supported a more or less > > standardized infrastructure to obtain sources from a repository > > and build applications from it, instead of manually downloading > > tar-balls, extracting them, "./configure && make && make install", > > or, today's fashion, "curl myapp.example.com | sudo bash". Wait, > > today git must always be involved... :-) > > > Err... what about pkgsrc? It evolved from FreeBSD ports. I use it to > compile and install applications on Debian. Yes! Exactly that slipped my mind. I haven't used Debian for years, but of course how pkgsrc worked was quite comparable to FreeBSD, I remember that. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"