Re: How old is pkg management in netbsd or bsd as such

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost>]

from Adolf Hohl

> how old is pkg management in netbsd or bsd? When was it able to express pkg
> dependencies and let it build it select and download dependent packages?

> Thanks a lot in advance, ah

NetBSD got pkgsrc in Aug 1997, and pkgsrc was subsequently ported to other 
mostly Unix or quasi-Unix OSes.

http://www.pkgsrc.org/

with a link to the pkgsrc guide at

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/

Introduction is at

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/introduction.html

Information on FreeBSD ports is available at

http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html

Tom