Re:OpenBSD 6.0: why and how
by rwmj on Thursday September 01, 2016 @09:19AM
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A package manager should know about all the files installed on the system. Previously (and it has been many years) *BSD just splatted files into the filesystem and didn't keep track of them.
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OpenBSD's pkg_add/* tools are related to the old FreeBSD utilities only by name, Marc Espie rewrote OpenBSD's package tools in Perl many years ago. It is a modern packaging system with proper dependency tracking, per-file checksum verification, privsep and cryptographic signatures (signify/ed25519)