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



* On 2013-06-13 at 05:17 BST, Adolf Hohl wrote:

> 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?

FreeBSD ports was started in August 1994, and pkgsrc was forked from
ports in August 1997.

For more history, see ports/Mk/bsd.ports.mk or pkgsrc/mk/bsd.pkg.mk

Regards,

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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