I understand that, what your not getting is that i am talking about the
release schedule of the individual BSD distros not the release schedule of
pkgsrc.
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:02 PM, John Marino <netbsd@marino.st> wrote:
> On 12/4/2012 07:14, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>
>> Martin<martin.kelly4000@gmail.**com <martin.kelly4000@gmail.com>>
>> writes:
>>
>> I can see how you could misunderstand what i said.
>>>
>>> My point was about that each of the BSD's use pkgsrc in a different way
>>> and
>>> the releases from FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD or DflyBSD don't all rely on
>>> the
>>> exact same packages for every release (i.e. NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9 do not
>>> use the same version of GNOME-2 desktop; poor example), and that
>>> generally
>>> per BSD release they generally blob the binaries that are compatible for
>>> that release together.
>>>
>>
>> No, pkgsrc is one for everyone, unless someone maintains his own branch.
>> As far as I know, only DragonFly and SmartOS do, though nothing serious
>> stops them from using original distribution. Thus NetBSD 6 and FreeBSD 9
>> use
>> the same version of GNOME, provided that they use supported pkgsrc branch.
>>
>
>
> DragonFly has a git mirror mirror of the pkgsrc cvs repository, but its
> contents are identical to what is in cvs. I would not classify this as
> "maintaining its own branch". We use the same distribution as NetBSD.
>
> Just clarifying this statement to avoid misinformation.
>
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