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1 April 2013 - pkgsrc-2013Q1 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2013Q1 branch.

See the release announcement for more information.

11 January 2013 - pkgsrc-2012Q4 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2012Q4 branch.

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1 October 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q3 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2012Q3 branch.

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1 July 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q2 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2012Q2 branch.

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7 April 2012 - pkgsrc-2012Q1 released

The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2012Q1 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages.

pkgsrc is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 12000 packages. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms.

The binary packages that are produced by pkgsrc can be used without having to compile everything from source. NetBSD already contains the necessary tools for managing binary packages, on other platforms you need to bootstrap pkgsrc to get the package management tools installed.

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install binary packages (NetBSD)

PKG_PATH="http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All"
export PKG_PATH
pkg_add tmux

install binary packages (OSX)

curl http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/Darwin/bootstrap/bootstrap-2013Q1-Darwin.tar.gz | gnutar -zxpf - -C /
PATH=/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/pkg/bin:$PATH
pkgin -y install tmux

install binary packages (illumos/SmartOS)

curl http://pkgsrc.smartos.org/packages/illumos/bootstrap/bootstrap-2013Q1-illumos.tar.gz | gtar -zxpf - -C /
PATH=/opt/pkg/sbin:/opt/pkg/bin:$PATH
pkgin -y install tmux

bootstrap

cvs -danoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot checkout pkgsrc
cd pkgsrc/bootstrap
./bootstrap

build a package

cd pkgsrc/devel/memcached
make install clean

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