Freebsd Pkg Source
Even aside from the fact that this is happening in /usr/ports, the actual FreeBSD operating system command is fstat. Which are you actually trying to do: upgrade the ports collection? Or upgrade the operating system? Because they are two different answers and two different chapters of the FreeBSD Handbook. Yes, this is all in the Handbook.
- Ports repository offers the necessary tools for compiling applications from source code, alongside with their dependencies, but also maintains a huge collection of pre-compiled packages, currently more than 24.000 packages, that can be installed on a FreeBSD system with pkg command.
- I need to configure FreeBSD kernel but not able to find out source code in /usr/src/sys directory. How do I install FreeBSD source code? A.Your kernel and all related source code is located at /usr/src/sys directory which is also accessible through the /sys path. If there is not a /usr/src/sys directory on your system,.
- IXsystems TrueNAS storage appliances are based on FreeBSD 10.3. FreeNAS – Open source storage platform; TrueOS – discontinued FreeBSD distribution aimed at the server market, previously a desktop distribution. MidnightBSD — A GNUstep-based independent fork of FreeBSD for desktops, however installer is not graphical.
- Looks like it's working now without me doing anything. Looks like this is a FreeBSD server side issue. I didn't expect the pkg service is so unreliable It could easily block someone's mission critical tasks.
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FreeBSD Source:
This is the top level of the FreeBSD source directory. This filewas last revised on:$FreeBSD$
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power modern servers,desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community hascontinually developed it for more than thirty years. Itsadvanced networking, security, and storage features havemade FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of thebusiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networkingand storage devices.
For copyright information, please see the file COPYRIGHT in thisdirectory. Additional copyright information also exists for somesources in this tree - please see the specific source directories formore information.
The Makefile in this directory supports a number of targets forbuilding components (or all) of the FreeBSD source tree. See build(7), config(8),https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html, andhttps://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.htmlfor more information, including setting make(1) variables.
Source Roadmap:
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The FreeBSD Ports collection is a package management system for the FreeBSDoperating system, providing an easy and consistent way of installing software packages. As of February 2020, there are over 38,487 ports[1] available in the collection. It has also been adopted by NetBSD as the basis of its pkgsrc system.
Installing from source[edit]
The ports collection uses Makefiles arranged in a directory hierarchy so that software can be built, installed and uninstalled with the make command. When installing an application, very little (if any) user intervention is required after issuing a beginning command such as make install or make install clean in the ports directory of the desired application. In most cases the software is automatically downloaded from the Internet, patched and configured if necessary, then compiled, installed and registered in the package database. If the new port has needed dependencies on other applications or libraries, these are installed beforehand automatically.
Most ports are already configured with default options which have been deemed generally appropriate for most users. However, these configuration options (called knobs) can sometimes be changed before installation using the make config command, which brings up a text-based interface that allows the user to select the desired options.
Historically, each port (or software package) has been maintained by an individual port maintainer who is responsible for ensuring the currency of the port and providing general support. Today, many ports are maintained by special task forces or sub-projects, each with a dedicated mailing list (e.g. kde@FreeBSD.org, java@FreeBSD.org, etc.), while unmaintained ports are assigned to the generic group ports@FreeBSD.org. In general, anyone may become a port maintainer by contributing their favorite software to the collection. One may also choose to maintain an existing port with no active maintainer.[2]
Packages[edit]
Precompiled (binary) ports are called packages. A package can be created from the corresponding port with the make package command; pre-built packages are also available for download from FreeBSD-hosted package repositories. A user can install a package by passing the package name to the pkg install command. This downloads the appropriate package for the installed FreeBSD release version, then installs the application, including any software dependencies it may have. By default, packages are downloaded from the main FreeBSD Package Repository (pkg.freebsd.org), but if there are any troubles after updating packages, previous version of packages cannot be installed because the repository denies subfolders indexes. In this case, a user must upgrade the OS version to the latest release and install latest packges.
FreeBSD maintains a build farm called the pointyhat cluster in which all packages for all supported architectures and major releases are built. The build logs and known errors for all ports built into packages through the pointyhat cluster are available in a database[3] and weekly builds logs are also available through mailing list archives.[4]
These pre-compiled packages are separated into categories by the architectures for which they are available. Packages are further separated into several 'release' directories, one for each current production release built from the ports collection and shipped with the release. These production release directories are never updated.
There are also stable and current directories for several major release branches. These are updated more or less weekly. In most cases a package created for an older version of FreeBSD can be installed and used on a newer system without difficulty since binary backward compatibility across major releases is enabled by default.
A packaging system for binary packages[5] called pkg has replaced the package management system in FreeBSD 10.[6]
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History[edit]
Jordan Hubbard committed his port make macros to the FreeBSD CVS repository on August 21, 1994.[7] His package install suite Makefile had been committed a year earlier (August 26, 1993).[8] The core ports framework was at first maintained by Hubbard along with Satoshi Asami for several years. The Ports Management Team was later formed to handle this task.
NetBSD's pkgsrc and OpenBSD's ports collection trace their roots to FreeBSD.
DPorts[edit]
Since release 3.6 DragonFly BSD project uses FreeBSD Ports as a base for its own DPorts ports collection. John Marino of DragonFly BSD project created DeltaPortsrepository – a collection of patches and files that overlay and modify theFreeBSD Ports, in order to generate DPorts.[9][10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'About FreeBSD Ports'. freebsd.org. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
- ^'Porter's Handbook'. FreeBSD project.
- ^'FreeBSD Package building logs and errors (pointyhat cluster)'. freebsd.org. Retrieved March 26, 2010.
- ^https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-pkg-fallout
- ^https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
- ^https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/relnotes.html
- ^'CVS log for ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk'. FreeBSD project. Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved January 5, 2020.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
- ^'CVS log for src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/Makefile'. FreeBSD project. Archived from the original on April 14, 2013. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
- ^Sherrill, Justin (January 12, 2013). 'An early DPorts education'. DragonFly BSD Digest. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^Marino, John. 'DeltaPorts'. GitHub. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
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External links[edit]
- FreshPorts - website that tracks port updates
- Port-Tags - Project to add tags to the ports collection
- Installing Applications: Packages and Ports from the FreeBSD Handbook (Chapter 4)