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Re:Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package man... by avtar on Friday January 02, 2015 @07:53PM (#8829446)
Hmm I didn't know that Joyent maintained their own packages for non-SmartOS platforms. The OS X packages seem to be limited to 32-bit versions and even though you didn't mention this I noticed their Linux packages seem to lag behind pkgsrc upstream. What is the advantage of using their packages over the OS X and Linux ones offered by NetBSD? https://www.pkgsrc.org/#platforms
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Re:Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package man... by yrmt on Saturday January 03, 2015 @07:02AM (#8830574)
I'm building fresh 64bit packages on Mac OS X Yosemite. They will be uploaded in a few days at http://pkgsrc.saveosx.org/Darwin/2014Q4/x86_64/All/. Oh and they are GPG signed. Documentation at http://saveosx.org
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Re:Baseline Mac OS X Support merged into FreeBSD package man... by justincormack on Saturday January 03, 2015 @05:21AM (#8830424)
AFAIK they are the only binary build at present for OSX. You can use source for 64 bit OSX of course http://wiki.netbsd.org/pkgsrc/pkgsrc_64bit_osx/

I have generally used source not packages for non NetBSD platforms, other than when I tried out SmartOS and it is all set up. If you have a chunk of disk space, a fast computer and some time you can compile them yourself, and if someone wants to support osx 64 bit that would be great.

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