Hi users of EL6 based distributions,
I'm pleased to announce a new alternative binary package repository for EL6 x86_64. The aim is to provide a supplemental set of packages which may contain software not included in your base system.
These packages are based on pkgsrc, a cross-platform package manager.
In this initial release there are 13,152 packages available. For now I am specifically targetting EL6/x86_64 (the build host is CentOS 6.5) to see what kind of interest in this. If there is reasonable interest I can produce packages for other targets based on popularity.
To install, download and unpack the bootstrap kit:
$ curl -s http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/Linux/bootstrap/bootstrap-2014Q2-el6-x86_6... | sudo tar -zxpf - -C /
Packages are self-contained under the /usr/pkg prefix:
$ PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/pkg/bin $ MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/pkg/man
Included is the "pkgin" binary package manager, which has been designed to operate similar to yum/apt-get:
# Fetch latest database $ sudo pkgin update
# Search for a package $ pkgin search tmux
# Install it $ sudo pkgin install tmux
# See what is available $ pkgin avail | less
Further details and similar binary package sets for SmartOS/illumos and OSX can be found here:
Feedback is highly appreciated! Let me know if there is anything we can do to improve these packages, or if they are unwelcome. You can email me or @jperkin, or alternatively get involved in the pkgsrc community - our aim is to provide cross-platform packages for over 20 different operating systems from the same source tree.
Thanks,
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Jonathan Perkin