Features

Primary Target Platforms

FreeBSD

NetBSD

OpenBSD

BSD/OS

Darwin

Secondary Target Platforms

Solaris

RedHat Linux

BeOs

Current Features

Full support for wildcards in both “src” as well as binary pkgs

Installed and binary pkgs contain the size of the pkg in bytes.

Pkgs can be deleted recursively, e.g. to nuke jpeg and everything that needs it (very handy)

A package database to findout which pkg a file belongs to Also, the size including all required pkgs is available.

Detection of out-of-date pkg_* tools if bsd.pkg.mk uses a feature that the installed pkg_* tools don’t provide.

make(1) enhancements: faster, more POSIX compliant, etc.

Automatic Patch update

Proposed Features

Support for output of multiple package formats, ie .rpm .deb, etc. With .ops (Open Package System) as the default using Tar/Bzip2 format.

m4 enhancements (we work with autoconf through a -g flag, etc)

make-maker (mirroring distfiles quickly, similar to fetch-list from FreeBSD/NetBSD); See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=mirroring-ports

Fake (tmpdir install, pkg create, pkg_add instead of traditional ‘raw’ install w/out a package)

sha1/md5/cksum instead of just cksum

‘piecemeal’ packages, aka one egcs compile & fake install becomes egcs-java*tgz, egcs-fortran*tgz, egcs-c++*tgz; kde is another example

Flavors (multiple targets/pkg names per package for various compile time options, e.g. use a different UI, toolkit, etc).

Parallel bulk builds in chroot environment, see http://bento.FreeBSD.org/errorlogs

Differences in the target Operating Systems:

        App         OpenBSD NetBSD FreeBSD  Darwin   BSDi
        OpenSSH      B       B      B 4.x   B        ?
                                    P 3.x
        OpenSSL      B       B      B       ?        ?
        perl         B       P      B       ?        ?
        X11R6        B       B      P       ?        ?
        freebsd_lib  P       P      X       ?        ?
        ...

        B = in base tree
        P = in ports/pkgsrc
        ? = not sure
        X = not applicable

Integration roadmap:

Milestone #1: Import package tools, make, and an initial package. Verify that the imported package builds on at least one target OS.

Milestone #2: Port above to all target OSes.

Milestone #3: Add Fake, Flavours, and sub-packages from OpenBSD

Milestone #4: Add support for multiple package formats, ie. .deb .rpm .ops

Milestone #5: Using pkgtools/port2pkg, we can start migrating all FreeBSD ports.