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DarwinPorts Now Available as a .dmg

Posted by timothy on from the what's-your-dmg-heather dept.

MitsuMirage writes "From Apple's ADC mailing list: 'OpenDarwin.org has released DarwinPorts 1.0 to provide an easy way to install various open source software products on the Darwin OS family (OpenDarwin, Mac OS X and Darwin). Version 1.0 features about 2500 completed ports.'"

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  1. /.'d already? by tweakiegeek · · Score: 2, Informative

    it's only been nine minutes, and it looks like their server melted down... maybe it's just me, I certainly hope so!

  2. Shameless plug for pkgsrc... by derinax · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been using pkgsrc on OS X for years now, since 10.2. Works great, any occasional errors are cleared up quickly after a post to the mailing list. But I'm a NetBSD guy, so there's my bias.

    http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/

    Pkgsrc is superior to Fink, for certain-- I'm not familiar with Darwinports and how it stacks up. It's just a different brand of the same strawberry ice cream, I imagine.

    Mmm... ice cream. I installed QT just yesterday (so I can compile TyEditor) by simply typing 'make update'... No fuss, no muss.

    1. Re:Shameless plug for pkgsrc... by javax · · Score: 1, Informative

      hmmm... from netbsd.org:

      You cannot use a HFS+ file system for pkgsrc, because pkgsrc currently requires the filesystem to be case-sensitive, and HFS+ is not.

      Sounds like being superior comes at a price...

    2. Re:Shameless plug for pkgsrc... by derinax · · Score: 2, Informative

      This statement ("cannot use a HFS+ file system for pkgsrc") is obsolete. Please see

      http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bugs/2004/07/0 8/0001.html

    3. Re:Shameless plug for pkgsrc... by derinax · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not at all. I use a .dmg file mounted under /usr/pkgsrc.

      Because all pkgsrc bits reside on the .dmg, it's instantly portable to my other Macs. You really ought to discover .dmg files. They are quite nice.

  3. Re:No darwin ports is hostile by javax · · Score: 5, Informative


    Seems like you totally confused GNU-Darwin (which hosed your system) with OpenDarwin and it's DarwinPorts project.

  4. Fink interfaces by Kaseijin · · Score: 2, Informative
    Using a curses-based menu to select packages I wanted was an incredible drag.
    Wow, I had forgotten that dselect even existed. The Fink base install includes apt-get and another command-line utility, fink. FinkCommander is an Aqua GUI.
  5. Try Gentoo for Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's the best I have worked with thus far. Much more up to date software. http://www.metadistribution.org/macos/

  6. Re:Inevitable "fink vs" post by dmalloc · · Score: 2, Informative

    >1) Darwin ports has a lot more stuff on it than >fink.
    This is plain wrong. Fink currently sports over 4800 complete packages (this includes the variants). This only holds true for stable and binary packages.

    2) Darwin ports is more up to date (in general) than fink

    This is also plain wrong. The Fink CVS sees various updates daily. Of course some packages are more out to date, simply because we have more packages and there are not proportinally more maintainers.
    This only holds true for stable/binary packages.

    3) Darwin ports allow you to throw more compile options at the packages (fink doesn't support this)

    Correct and this is a design choice.

    -d

  7. Re:Inevitable "fink vs" post by jbolden · · Score: 3, Informative

    You seem a bit defensive. I think I was actually pretty fair. In any case.

    I don't know how you are doing your counting, I'm not sure what the results for darwin would be if you were to use a similar method. Darwin ports isn't binary and they don't have minor variants so many of the seperate packages on fink wouldn't be seperate on darwinports. That being the case lets look at a few random examples:

    Database fink, darwin.

    Editors darwin fink

    Development darwin fink.

    I think my comment is fair. The fink list is loaded with slight variations while the darwin ports list contains more elements which are genuinely different. And darwin even has more catagories.

    _________________________

    Both projects are active. But again if I look at actual packages I tend to find the darwin version is more up to date than the fink version. Are you disagreeing and if so how would you propose we test?