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Package management tool for FreeBSD. Help at #pkg on Libera Chat or pkg@FreeBSD.org

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2014-01-19 · latest 2025-08-01

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  1. > https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2414 I wrote: "2414 intrigues me, however there's not enough for me to tell whether it's a pkg issue. "I do know that the big picture includes things being suitably prioritised; for this reason, and…
    comment by grahamjperrin · 2025-08-01 · in Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature
  2. …months ago, and they're still open. This is not a finished mechanism. Very clearly not. (-: * https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2414
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-07-30 · in Pkgbase Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature
  3. …FreeBSD's pkg package manager to be very clean and educational. Reference http://www.dpdk.org and https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
    comment by bigjimslade · 2017-03-13 · in Ask HN: What are some examples of good code?
  4. one more, FreeBSD's pkg uses picosat - https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/tree/master/external/picosat
    comment by mtve · 2016-12-13 · in Version SAT
  5. …to freebsd binary package manager, but nothing came out of it (perhaps for good reasons). [1]: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1041
    comment by gvalkov · 2015-11-08 · in Scm_breeze – enhancing your Git CLI workflow
  6. …even Arch pacman[3] on OS X if you so desire. 1: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/apt 2: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg 3: https://github.com/kladd/pacman-osx
    comment by bydo · 2015-03-19 · in Installing Windows 8 after 8 years of Linux
  7. …software could be included in the repository. pkg metadata does include license information -- see https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/20 , but I am not sure of plans to provide user-facing control over acceptable licenses at the moment.…
    comment by emaste · 2015-02-17 · in Debian developer prompted to revisit FreeBSD after 20 years
  8. …one of the founders of MacPorts. There's an explanation for it in a comment on the pull request: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/1113#issuecomment-680639... This change doesn't mean very much in isolation, but will hopefully be the…
    comment by emaste · 2015-01-02 · in Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package manager
  9. …https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgPrimer http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html https://github.com/freebsd/pkg
    comment by profquail · 2014-01-19 · in FreeBSD 10.0 is here