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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. 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 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.

  2. 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.