On 30/05/2008, at 6:38 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello >> >> I would like to know if there is some work in progress to porting >> pacman >> to any BSD system > > You may want to take a look at the archives for this month: > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/thread.html > > Many of the posts from Sebastian Nowicki are related to getting > makepkg to work on Mac OSX which is obviously similar to BSD. > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/011830.html > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2008-May/011837.html > > In addition, libalpm & pacman should be fully buildable and testable > on BSDs and OSX. libfetch will be used in place of libdownload, and > libarchive must be available as well. We did a lot of work last > October to get it compiling on FreeBSD. This is all available in the > pacman git repository. > > With that said, none of us main developers use BSD as a primary or > even secondary system, so it doesn't get much testing. We would need > help from someone in those communities to help out and ensure we > remain compatible.
I have been using pacman on Mac OSX for about a month now, and it's working great. As far as I can tell there's nothing wrong with it on BSD. As I said in another mail, there are still some problems with the dev toolset (makepkg, repo-add, etc), but makepkg is getting there, it's definitely useable. I haven't tested pacman on FreeBSD or any other BSD, but I don't see why it wouldn't work there as well. -- Sebastian Nowicki _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
