Re: Compact Linux distro for primarily pkgsrc based installation

[pin <voidpin%protonmail.com@localhost>]

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On Wednesday, November 30th, 2022 at 7:13 AM, Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:


> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:02:31AM +0000, pin wrote:
> 
> > No systemd and was created by a former NetBSD dev.
> 
> Sounds interesting it kept away from systemd so far.
> 
> Small base system sounds suitable for my requirement.
> 
> It seems to have its own source build system. For familiarity reason and
> for bulk builds with same build options on multiple platforms, I'd prefer
> pkgsrc. Have you / anyone tried using pkgsrc on this distro?

Yes, it has it's own source build system but, you need to bootstrap it.
It's not on by default.

I haven't tried pkgsrc but, should be no problem.
I'm using the musl libc base, which could pose some extra hurdles.
But if you stick to glibc, it should be rather straightforward.
Be aware that Void ships with dash as default shell, so you might need to install bash
and perhaps some other gnu-tools before bootstraping pkgsrc.

Good luck!