On mar, 2013-04-02 at 16:15 +0200, Niels Dettenbach wrote: > Am Dienstag, 2. April 2013, 16:09:46 schrieb Benito Mourelo Caldeiro: > > Hello, Linux kernel plus ports is Gentoo Linux (since 1999) and > > Gentoo-derived distributions (ej. Funtoo and Sabayon Linux). > > Gentoo portage is not ports (but a bit [or more then a bit...] similiar) - > this is why there are guys out using Gentoo with pkgsrc instead of portage.
Yes, to be precise and citing Wikipedia: Portage is Gentoo's package management system. It is similar in idea to the BSD ports collections: the original design was based on FreeBSD ports. In contrast, the Portage tree does not contain directories of Makefiles, but of so-called ebuilds, Bash-like scripts that describe separate functions to download, configure, make, install and remove a package and additional functions that can be used to set up the operating environment for a package. Portage's main utility is emerge, which is written in Python and can be used by privileged users to inspect and alter the set of installed packages on a Gentoo operating system. Whereas emerge used to operate in a similar way to other ports collections, by entering a directory in the tree and using emerge (instead of make) to perform package management operations, it now reads variables from the file /etc/portage/make.conf (again similar to ports) to determine where the Portage tree is kept. Saudos. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
