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OpenBSD Ports and Packages Explained

Posted by Hemos on from the always-good-to-learn-more dept.

jpkunst writes "As reported on undeadly.org: an interesting interview with OpenBSD developer Marc Espie about the internals of and the philosophy behind the OpenBSD ports and packages system."

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  1. Re:The original 'gentoo' ... explained :) by compass46 · · Score: 3, Informative

    OpenBSD does package first then install. FreeBSD does install first then package. The former method is useful when you want to build a package on a faster machine that will not be using the package. For example, building Apache on one machine for another slower machine when the fatser machine will never use Apache. The process using FreeBSD on the faster machine is build, install, package, deinstall.

    OpenBSD's ports system is geared primarilly towards being a packaging system for the OpenBSD developers where FreeBSD's is more towards a general purpose installation, management, and packing framework. My personal wish is that FreeBSD would move to a portstree structure and management more like OpenBSD's.