> > What FreeBSD and NetBSD lack is a good system for > > management of binary packages. Marc has very well understood that, > > and has made every effort so that updates work smoothly. To my > > knowledge OpenBSD is the only BSD which has a working update > > mechanism, fully integrated. > > I completely agree with you - I prefer binary packages. If nothing else, > pkgmanager is getting close to taking away much of the pain of manual > compilation and upgrading: http://www.scode.org/pkgmanager/ .
And pkg_select has been updated to work with binary packages using the pkg_summary database. And I heard that pkg_chk can use the pkg_summary(5) database for binary updates also. By the way, OpenBSD's solution uses perl. Pkgsrc doesn't depend on perl as perl is not installed on some pkgsrc developers/users systems. Jeremy C. Reed
