pkg VS source

Compare pkg vs source and see what are their differences.

pkg

Package management tool for FreeBSD. Help at #pkg on Libera Chat or [email protected] (by freebsd)

source

Onion's fork of OpenWRT's source build system. The firmware for the Omega2, Omega2+, and Omega2 Pro is based on the openwrt-18.06 branch. (by OnionIoT)
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pkg source
6 1
728 80
0.7% -
9.5 0.0
9 days ago about 2 months ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

pkg

Posts with mentions or reviews of pkg. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • Personal FreeBSD PKGBASE Update Server
    2 projects | /r/freebsd | 9 Dec 2023
    pkg.conf(5): HTTPS for pkg.freebsd.org by grahamperrin · Pull Request #2199 · freebsd/pkg
  • pfBlockerNG-devel v3.1.0_19/10
    1 project | /r/pfBlockerNG | 21 Jan 2023
    ``` pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg bootstrap -f" recommended pkg-1.18.4_3 Name : pkg Version : 1.18.4_3 Installed on : Wed Nov 30 06:03:08 2022 EST Origin : ports-mgmt/pkg Architecture : FreeBSD:14:amd64 Prefix : /usr/local Categories : ports-mgmt Licenses : BSD2CLAUSE Maintainer : [email protected] WWW : https://github.com/freebsd/pkg Comment : Package manager Options : DOCS : off Shared Libs provided: libpkg.so.4 Annotations : FreeBSD_version: 1400073 build_timestamp: 2022-11-07T16:00:12+0000 built_by : poudriere-git-3.3.99.20220831 port_checkout_unclean: no port_git_hash : 64db341f2df5 ports_top_checkout_unclean: yes ports_top_git_hash: 64db341f2df5 repo_type : binary repository : pfSense Flat size : 34.3MiB Description : Package management tool
  • Update: parallel downloads?
    1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 12 Nov 2022
  • OPNsense 22.1.7 released
    3 projects | /r/opnsense | 11 May 2022
    We went back to look at why this happened and found https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/1917 which we reported a long time ago. It seems that when py37-MarkupSafe became py37-markupsafe the FreeBSD package tool would mark the new package as manually installed (which it wasn't) so it sticked around ever since then for some people.
  • pkg support for Multithreaded Download?
    1 project | /r/freebsd | 3 Mar 2022
    Fetching multiple packages in parallel · Issue #1961 · freebsd/pkg
  • Is this a FreeBSD Issue / Am I doing something wrong ?
    2 projects | /r/freebsd | 2 Aug 2021
    Apart from that, the pkg source is available here: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg. You can file a feature request there, too. Code is pretty clean IIRC and I'm sure they appreciate patches.

source

Posts with mentions or reviews of source. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-20.
  • How to: Cross compiling for the Onion Omega 2S(+)
    2 projects | /r/rust | 20 Jul 2022
    # This is the "base image". Luckily the cross-rs team already provides this as a way FROM ghcr.io/cross-rs/mips-unknown-linux-musl:latest # Install some dependencies to build the toolchain RUN apt update && apt install -y git wget subversion build-essential libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev gawk flex quilt git-core unzip libssl-dev python-dev python-pip libxml-parser-perl time # Clone the Onion toolchain repository RUN git clone https://github.com/OnionIoT/source.git

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pkg and source you can also consider the following projects:

NomadBSD - Livesystem based on FreeBSD