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Old 14th July 2014
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
That is a bald–faced lie! I am probably the last person who tried to bootstrap pkgsrc on OpenBSD around times of OpenBSD 4.6 for education purposes. It failed miserably. Since then I learnt that pkgsrc even on NetBSD itself is tested only on amd64 maybe i386. NetBSD guys use cross compiling for all other architectures which means that pkgsrc is likely to fail on let say NetBSD VAX port because it has not been tested on the real hardware. Their support for other OSs is verbal at best.
Just a quote, probably not everything being as bad:
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Finally ditched homebrew, I've had enough. I'm now using NetBSD's pkgsrc on OS X instead, and first experiences are great. Article coming.
https://twitter.com/fcambus/status/487704396302913536
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