Re: Pkgsrc on systems with existing package systems

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, David Brownlee wrote:
> Is this something we should be talking about more?

Yes, much more!
Other features:
 * you can install pkgsrc stuff without root
   permissions, and thus be safe from messing up your system.
 * you can say where to install all packages to. This allows to have
   packages in /pkg-V1, and whenever you decide it's time to move to a new
   pkgsrc version, put them into /pkg-V2. When everything works, switch
   the /pkg symlink and be done.

See
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/Jul2005darcy-pkgsrc.pdf,
http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html/nb_20060906_1043.html
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/98.en.html
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/271-21c3-pkgsrc-slides.pdf
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/270-21c3-pkgsrc-paper.pdf
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/files/419-098%20Portable%20Software-Installation%20with%20pkg%20source.torrent


 - Hubert