FreeBSD Passes 9000 Ports

Dan writes "Kris Kennaway believes that the french/med port has the honour of being the 9000'th in the FreeBSD ports collection. Congratulations to everyone who has helped to make the Ports Collection such a success over the past 9 years!"

Comments

Problems porting

[SirGeek]

Not always. Sometimes porting is tough. Right now, I'm the "Non-Linux" release engineeer for Linux HA ( High Availablity Clustering) and I've tested it on FreeBSD 4.7 (going to to upgrade one box to 4.8 and another to 5.1 ) . The only problem is that the tool chain requires versions that are NOT the standard ported versions (Automake and autoconf if my memory serves me right).

I want to get things working right so that I can release a Port version of Heartbeat but currently I cannot. Luckily it, by design, builds on FreeBSD and puts things into /usr/local/.../ and not /usr/... like on Linux.

This may be a factor why things aren't quite right (different versions of Automake/Conf/lib) .

Re:Problems porting

[rainer_d]

The only problem is that the tool chain requires versions that are NOT the standard ported versions (Automake and autoconf if my memory serves me right).

FreeBSD doesn't come with autoconf/make at all (and bsd-make instead of gmake).These are in the ports-tree and there are even different versions for the first two.
I'm not a toolchain expert, but you might want to look into this.

Also, one reason why autoconf/automake sometimes break on FreeBSD is the fact that people hard-code certain Linux-isms into their config-files that subsequently fall over when run under FreeBSD...

almost 3 per day

[1nv4d3r]

9000 ports in 9 years is like 2.7 ports a day. That's pretty impressive.

(not to equate quantity with quality, but still...)

awesome

[Anonymous Coward]

congrats!

I've learned to appreciate both the version stability and back-patching done by Red Hat, and the wonderful selection of customizable ports offered by FreeBSD.

However since Red Hat seems to be abandoning the small end of the market, little by little, I find myself recommending and using FreeBSD for most folks, unless they need to admin themselves (red hat is a little easier for those folks).

Now somebody please just get a port for Berkeley's new XML database in there, and we'll be set! :-)

compaq triflex ide controller

[jcgf]

I'm a linux user that has recently given freebsd a try. I must say that I prefer it over linux. The only thing keeping me from switching full time is the lack of support for the triflex ide controller in my laptop (armada 7400). Linux just got it in 2.4.21 (maybe before in some patch somewhere).
If anyone knows of a driver in development any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jared

Congradulations Team

[kiwirob]

FreeBSD is dead, long live FreeBSD!!!! I've been using FreeBSD as my desktop for the last few years. It hasn't always been easy but it has been enjoyable. Since I started as a FreeBSD user the system has just got better and better. Big thanks to everybody involved in making this milestone possible. Here's looking forwards to the 10,000th port!!1

Re:Just another reason to love FreeBSD

[Eraser_]

The "...and be done with it" is what I like about FreeBSD. RedHat is a PITA to get software installed on, but we are forced to use it to get a service contract for this new whizbang filtering software we run for the school district.

Oh, and rock on rc.conf!

How well maintained?

[Anonymous Coward]

One of the things I like about OpenBSD is that they actually remove crusty, unmaintained, or otherwise useless ports. I'm curious as to how well pruned the FreeBSD ports tree happens to be... Anyone?