[csw-users] SunFreeware vs. Blastwave

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Larry Siden's message of Tue Mar 15 13:47:42 -0400 2011:

Hi Larry,

> For example, the mirror http://download.blastwave.org/csw/unstable has git
> 1.6.3, while the SunFreeware mirror

You likely want to grab the pkgutil and/or pkg-get from
http://opencsw.org/get-it.  They will have OpenCSW mirrors set by
default, not blastwave ones.  You'll get git 1.7.3.2 from us.  I hope
to have 1.7.4.1 out the door soon but have been tied up with other
things.

> ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freewarehas Git 1.7.4.  The mirror
> http://download.blastwave.org/csw/stable doesn't even contain git!

The pkg-get tool is designed to be compatible with the sunfreeware
catalog, but that's not a design goal for pkgutil, afaik.

> OTOH, the blastwave mirror has many PHP modules, while the
> SunFreeware mirror site has only different versions of php and no
> php-cli.

OpenCSW has a good php stack too...an update is in the works for it
right now.

> Why does each have such different coverage?  Are they targeted at
> different use cases (for example webservers vs something else)?

Different people with different needs, most likely.  Most maintainers
in OpenCSW package things they use/need themselves.  That explains
much of the difference.  You should find that the OpenCSW (and to a
good extent Blastwave) provide a more integrated set of packages than
sunfreeware as the philosophies differ.  (This isn't a knock on
sunfreeware in any way.)

> Can I mix and match packages from each without creating conflicts?

You could run a daemon from one with a client from another, but you
cannot share libraries between them in any sane fashion.

HTH.
-Ben
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