using PBI in FreeBSD

[Ole]

HHello,

I have question - why PBI is not available in FreeBSD for usage (not enough soft for using or for extract data from PBI)? I understanding the PBI is conservative archive+scripts binary file, who break FreeBSD-philosophy of location program file. However, to have the tools for manipulation PBI in FreeBSD was the very good. Any plan for porting PBI to FreeBSD ?

[TerryP]

HHello,

I have question - why PBI is not available in FreeBSD for usage (not enough soft for using or for extract data from PBI)? I understanding the PBI is conservative archive+scripts binary file, who break FreeBSD-philosophy of location program file. However, to have the tools for manipulation PBI in FreeBSD was the very good. Any plan for porting PBI to FreeBSD ?

To use PBI on FreeBSD, you must checkout the needed code from PC-BSD Subversion repository, and figure out how to build & install it on FreeBSD, then setup a suitable system for installing PBI files.


FreeBSD does not want PBI.

[Gon]

i always thought PBI was for pc bsd installer...muaehaehaeh :twisted:

[graedus]

PC-BSD really shines in its use of FreeBSD as the underlying operating system. This means that any software available on FreeBSD will work under PC-BSD.

PC-BSD also adds a new packaging system, the PBI file. PBI works much like MSI files in Windows, as a standard installation system. Installing a PBI is just as easy as using a standard Windows installation file.

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[logavanc]

Old thread! =) I found this while trying to figure out how to add packages to a FreeBSD server. I have to admit, with my understanding of the advantages of the PBI system, I was surprised to find out that FreeBSD doesn't want to use it.

[drulavigne]

Beginning with latest 9.1 snapshot, a PC-BSD server install includes all of the cli versions of the pc-bsd utilities (warden, update manager, appcafe, etc.). It is still a command line version of FreeBSD, so basically a base FreeBSD install with the addition of the PC-BSD utils.