BSD daemon The NetBSD Packages Collection (pkgsrc) is a framework for building third-party software on NetBSD and other UNIX-like systems, currently containing over 13000 packages. It is used to enable freely available software to be configured and built easily on supported platforms. 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. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2011Q4 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2011Q3 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2011Q1 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2010Q1 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2009Q4 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2009Q3 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the pkgsrc-2009Q2 branch. This new quarterly branch provides support for a number of new packages as well as updated versions of current packages. The infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has also been improved to provide better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2009Q1 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q4 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q3 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q2 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2008Q1 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The second and finishing article with interviews about pkgsrc and alternative packaging systems is available. This issue also provides talks about MidnightBSD mports, GoboLinux and Zero Install: pkgsrc and the concepts of package management 1997-2007 The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q4 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. The next hackathon is scheduled for 3rd-4th of November and will be focussed on pkgsrc. The main goal is to make options.mk files for packages that don't already use them. Open PRs will be fixed as well. For more information, see Adam Hoka's announcement. 10 years ago - on October 3rd 1997 - the pkgsrc software management system was created by Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer. pkgsrc, the NetBSD Packages Collection, was primary intended as packaging system for NetBSD. Today, pkgsrc is a cross-platform framework, running on the BSDs, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, many Unix derivatives and even on Windows. We continue the anniversary celebrations with a series of interviews: developers and users of pkgsrc and of related systems give insights into the history, the concepts, the problems and the future directions of packaging systems. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q3 branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. This branch celebrates the tenth anniversary of pkgsrc. See the release announcement for more information. The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q2 release, which has support for more packages than previous releases. As well as updated versions of many packages, the infrastructure of pkgsrc itself has been improved for better platform and compiler support. See the release announcement for more information. &a.he; has announced that pkgsrc-2007Q1 4.0_BETA2 binary packages for the sparc64 port are now available, and have been uploaded to . Please use a mirror site close to you. The pkgsrc developers are proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2007Q1 branch. At the same time, the pkgsrc-2006Q4 branch has been deprecated, and continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2007Q1 branch. The source tar files for the new branch can be found at: You can also use the pkgsrc-2007Q1 tag to check it out yourself from anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors. Please see the detailed pkgsrc-2007Q1 announcement in &a.agc;'s email to the pkgsrc-users mailing list for more information. Julian Coleman has announced that updated packages from a bulk build of pkgsrc-2006Q4 on NetBSD/sparc64 3.0.2 are now available at: The packages were built from sources updated on February 16, 2007. 1352 packages were built in this update. The fourth annual pkgsrcCon will convene in Barcelona, Spain on Apr 27 - 29, 2007. pkgsrcCon is a technical conference focusing on the technology and the use of the NetBSD Packages Collection A call for presentations has been announced, inviting developers and users to give talks about pkgsrc-related topics at the conference. More information about pkgsrcCon 2007 is available at . Latest tarball of stable pkgsrc: &filename.pkgsrc.tarball.latest; Latest tarball of pkgsrc-current: &filename.pkgsrc.tarball.current; (updated weekly). Latest pkgsrc changes Available packages indexed by category Complete list of all packages List of IPv6-enabled packages The pkgsrc guide pkgsrc consists of both a and a for these operating systems. After retrieving the required source or binaries, you can be up and running with pkgsrc in just minutes! Platform Date Support Added NetBSD Aug 1997 Solaris Mar 1999 Linux Jun 1999 Darwin (Mac OS X) Oct 2001 FreeBSD Nov 2002 OpenBSD Nov 2002 IRIX Dec 2002 BSD/OS Dec 2003 AIX Dec 2003 Interix (Microsoft Windows Services for Unix) Mar 2004 DragonFlyBSD Oct 2004 OSF/1 Nov 2004 HP-UX Apr 2007 QNX Oct 2007 Haiku Sep 2010 MirBSD Jan 2011 The binary packages that are produced by pkgsrc can be used without having to compile everything from source. &os; already contains the necessary tools for managing binary packages, on other platforms you need to bootstrap pkgsrc to get the package management tools installed. A browsable list of packages, including links to available binary packages, is here. Binary packages are available on ftp.NetBSD.org and its mirrors in the directory /pub/pkgsrc/packages/ (see the pkgsrc guide for more details). If the tools for managing binary packages do not exist on a platform or are too old, they are provided along the binary packages in an archive called bootstrap.tar.gz, which must be extracted in the / directory. Then you can run /usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_add to install binary packages. See the pkgsrc guide for detailed instructions. You can download the pkgsrc tarball or check out the latest sources using AnonCVS: # cvs checkout -r&pkgsrc.branch.latest; pkgsrc (for using the AnonCVS service, see the Fetching by CVS section in the NetBSD Guide). After downloading and/or extracting the sources, installing the bootstrap kit should be as simple as: # cd pkgsrc/bootstrap # ./bootstrap This will use the defaults of /usr/pkg for the prefix and /var/db/pkg for the package database directory. However, these can also be set using command-line parameters (use ./bootstrap --help to see the available options). Note that when using pkgsrc on a non-NetBSD system, use the bmake command instead of make to run NetBSD make, which is required for correct pkgsrc operation. Simply substitute bmake for make in pkgsrc documentation. Wildcards and the NetBSD Packages Collection A Paper describing Package Views A web frontend for pkgsrc, provided by NetBSD Sweden