Pkgsrc

On October 3, 1997, NetBSD developers Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer created pkgsrc based on the FreeBSD ports system and intended to support the NetBSD packages collection. It was officially released as part of NetBSD 1.3{{cite web|url=//www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-1.3/|title=Information about NetBSD 1.3}} on January 4, 1998. DragonFly BSD used pkgsrc as its official package system from version 1.4 in 2006, to 3.4 in 2013.{{cite web |url=https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-08/msg00347.html |first=Matthew |last=Dillon |title=PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release |publisher=DragonFly users mailing list |date=2005-08-31}}{{r|informit-2006}}

On 2017-09-12, a commit message policy that accommodates DVCS was established by the project.{{r|dvcs}}

The NetBSD Foundation provides official, pre-built binary packages for multiple combinations of NetBSD and pkgsrc releases, and occasionally for certain other operating systems as well.{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/|title=Index of pub/PKGSRC/Packages/}}

As of 2018, several vendors provide pre-built binary packages for several platforms:

• Since at least 2014, Joyent has provided binary packages for SmartOS/illumos, macOS, and Enterprise Linux (CentOS/Oracle/Red Hat/Scientific).{{cite web

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715002720/http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/

|title=Joyent's packages, available for SmartOS/illumos, Linux, and OSX

|archive-date=2014-07-15

|access-date=2018-10-11

|url=http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/

|url-status=live

}} Packages are provided on a rolling release basis from the trunk (HEAD, in CVS terminology) of pkgsrc, with updates every few days; additionally, quarterly stable releases of pkgsrc for Joyent's own SmartOS are also provided (dating back to 2012Q4).{{Cite web|url=http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/|title = Index of /Packages/}}

• Since 2017, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee has provided binary packages for NetBSD, RHEL/CentOS, and Darwin/macOS.{{cite web

|url=http://mirror1.hpc.uwm.edu/pkgsrc/packages/sharedapps/

|title=mirror1.hpc.uwm.edu/pkgsrc/

|access-date=2018-10-11

}}{{cite web

|url=https://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/

|title=Software Management

|publisher=University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, High Performance Computing dept

|access-date=2018-10-11

}} Packages are only built from the quarterly releases of pkgsrc, aiding use in long-term experiments, where stability and reproducibility of the findings is of the essence.{{cite mailing list

|url=http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2017/08/01/msg025383.html

|title=Re: Pkgsrc binary packages now available for scientific computing

|mailing-list=pkgsrc-users

|publisher=NetBSD

|date=2017-08-01

|access-date=2018-10-13

}}

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{{cite web

|author= David Chisnall |date= 2006-10-06

|url= http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly/655422

|title= NetBSD: Not Just for Toasters

|publisher= Prentice Hall Professional

|website= InformIT

|access-date= 2019-07-25

}}

{{cite mailing list

|author= Thomas Klausner |date= 2017-09-12

|url= http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2017/09/12/msg025574.html

|title= pkgsrc Commit Message Policy

|mailing-list= pkgsrc-users@

|publisher= NetBSD

|access-date= 2019-05-09

}}

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• {{Official website}}
• [https://pkgsrc.se/ A web interface for pkgsrc]
• [https://pkgsrc.org/wip pkgsrc-wip] – a project to get more people actively involved with pkgsrc
• [https://pkgsrc.org/pkgsrcCon pkgsrcCon: An annual conference focusing on pkgsrc]
• [https://old.reddit.com/r/pkgsrc /r/pkgsrc] on Reddit

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