Subject: Same software in pkg and in userland : which one to use
? To:, NetBSD-current <> From: Xavier HUMBERT <> List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/13/2002 21:43:36 Dear Lords of the Holy CVS,  Could you
please answer a question that I ask to myself for a while :
Sometimes, the same software is present as well in userland and
in  The most obvious example is Postfix. I saw a coupl of other
examples that I don't recall right now.  For Postfix :  current
release=allsrc :  # grep DEF_MAIL_VERSION
/usr/src/gnu/dist/postfix/src/global/mail_version.h  #define
DEF_MAIL_VERSION        "Postfix-20010228-pl08" current
release=pkgsrc :  # grep DISTNAME
/usr/pkgsrc/mail/postfix/Makefile   DISTNAME=
postfix-20010228-pl08  Today, they are exactly the same.  Which
one is updated most frequently ? Which one is recommended to use
? What about the patches ?  Postfix is not a random example,
since Wietse never releases experimental code, and what he calls
beta are well tested, stable versions, which it is reasonable to
use on a pro