On 8/31/2012 17:44, Izaac wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 05:27:12PM -0400, kalin wrote:i'm coming from the world of freebsd and usually there the ports of a brand new release install all work together.Yeah. Your nomenclature gave you away. In NetBSD (and the rest of computer history, frankly) a "port" is the result of porting the operating system to a target architecture, e.g. sparc64 is a port. A bundle of software is called a "package".
To be fair, on FreeBSD a "port" refers to the set of files in the ports tree that build a package. With pkgsrc, _BOTH_ the set of files AND the built software are called a package. I find that highly awkward and FreeBSD doesn't have this ambiguity.
John