BSDCan2012 - Slide Update J
BSDCan 2012
The Technical BSD Conference
| Speakers | |
|---|---|
|
Baptiste Daroussin |
| Schedule | |
|---|---|
| Day | Talks - 2 - 2012-05-12 |
| Room | MRT 218 |
| Start time | 13:30 |
| Duration | 01:00 |
| Info | |
| ID | 292 |
| Event type | Lecture |
| Track | System Administration |
| Language used for presentation | English |
pkgng
Modernising FreeBSD package management
pkgng is a new package manager for FreeBSD, it aims at bringing modern package management features for FreeBSD
Pkgng is a completely new package manager rewritten from scratch. It aims at replacing the old pkg_install. It is developed on top of new libpkg which is the high level library that does all the package management, it brings new features such as safe upgrade, (multi) repository support, integrity checking and more. It has been designed to be extensible while remaining fully compatible with the current FreeBSD ports tree.