FreeBSD's repositories in OpenBSD?
reddit / BSD

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zielonykid1234 · 2021-07-05 11:35

I want to do that cause OpenBSD has not as much software in
repositories as FreeBSD

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vermaden · 2021-07-05 12:32

It will not work.

Software in FreeBSD repositories are compiled against FreeBSD kernel
and does not work on OpenBSD. Just use FreeBSD instead.

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zielonykid1234 · 2021-07-05 12:33

ok

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nsp0323 · 2021-07-05 13:07

Bootstrap and use pkgsrc.

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zielonykid1234 · 2021-07-05 13:07

ok

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brynet · 2021-07-05 13:23

FreeBSD and OpenBSD do not share the same package system, nor are they
binary compatible. They are different systems.

> OpenBSD has not as much software

It might be more helpful to  elaborate on what software is not
available...

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zielonykid1234 · 2021-07-05 13:25

ok

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AbsolutelyLudicrous · 2021-07-05 16:02

No, you cannot do that. They are two completely different systems.

You can try building software from source. pkgsrc and Gentoo's
Project:Prefix are quite good for this.

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Tubthumping · 2021-07-05 16:16

You should ask this to the OpenBSD mailing list and see what they say.
:')

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[deleted] · 2021-07-10 09:48

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anoduck · 2021-07-10 09:58

Although it is true, that you cannot use FreeBSD's packages for
OpenBSD, because of differences in kernel (the two having forked from
each other back in the 90's). You can setup NetBSD's PKGSRC for
OpenBSD. This is what MirBSD, a fork of OpenBSD, does. In my humble
experience, it has been too tedious of a process for necessity.