Re: binary pkgsrc on freebsd?

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
> How far does the binary compatability between *BSD derivatives extend?
> I'm thinking of trialling FreeBSD on this host for the ZFS capability
> however I'd like to stick to using pkgsrc for my package management.

I don't think you can run NetBSD binaries on FreeBSD easily.
There's COMPAT_FREEBSD, but I don't know in what state it is.
Try, see, and report back.

As for using pkgsrc to build your own packages: when you bootstrap, you 
will get a whole set of pkg_* tools from pkgsrc, and you should then use 
them over FreeBSD's native pkg_* tools. The ones from pkgsrc will just do 
what you know from NetBSD.


 - Hubert