[TxMt] DarwinPorts or Fink

[Jay Soffian]

On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:01 PM, Rick Gigger wrote:

> Has anyone tried out pkgsrc?
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

I have not, but note that:

"You cannot use an ordinary HFS+ file system for pkgsrc, because  
pkgsrc currently requires the file system to be case-sensitive. You  
can, however, use a case-sensitive HFS+ (aka HFSX) file system as  
found in Darwin 7.0 and newer."

> I used to use fink but all of the packages I used got very out of  
> date, and the newer versions were only in the unstable branch   
> (latest php or postgres) so I switched to DarwinPorts.

I used fink until at some point it annoyed me one time too many,  
can't recall what I found annoying though. DP isn't perfect (e.g,  
right now due to packaging errors GnuCash won't build/install) but  
has annoyed me less.

> Also if DarwinPorts is now MacPorts then why are both http:// 
> darwinports.opendarwin.org/ and http://www.macports.org/ both  
> operational?  Shouldn't the darwinports site be removed if it is  
> just old stuff?  Or at least it should have a not pointing you to  
> the newer macports site?

It says this on DP:

"As part of the transition to Mac OS Forge, the DarwinPorts project  
will adopt the new name MacPorts, utilizing the macports.org domain,  
which it recently acquired. "We believe the new name MacPorts better  
reflects our mission, which is to provide a collection of open source  
ports for Mac OS X, with future supportfor binary packages", says  
Juan Manuel Palacios, another DarwinPorts member.

Members of the DarwinPorts/MacPorts project and portmgr team will  
work with opendarwin.org and Mac OS Forge to effect a smooth  
transition over the coming weeks."

j.