Baptiste Daroussin

Instead of speaking about successful parts of the projects, this talk will focus on the weakness of both OpenBSD and FreeBSD, exploring conceptual differences between them and also exploring directions where motivated contributors can start working on to improve the projects. While being general purpose operating systems we will see that one size doesn't fit all and how one or the other may be a better solution to a particular problem. Trolls are to be left at the door.

Other people: Antoine Jacoutot

This talk is about the effort in build reproducibility on the FreeBSD project regarding package production and the FreeBSD ports tree.

To quote http://reproducible-build.org/: "Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices which create a verifiable path from human readable source code to the binary code used by computers."

Explaing the status of reproducibles packages building in the FreeBSD project regarding package production, how supporting reproducible builds will increase the QA procedures of the FreeBSD projects. What is the status of the implementation, and how we will improve

A summary of four years working on pkg:

• why a new packages manager;
• what happened in the different versions;
• mistakes made;
• lesson learned
• What is cooking for the future:
  • within pkg(8) itself;
  • packaging the FreeBSD base system;
  • improvement in the ports tree.

A summary of 3 years of heavy lifting of the ports tree, and what is coming next: cross compilation, sub packages, requires/provides and more.

Pkgng is a completely new package manager rewritten from scratch. It aims at replacing the old pkg_install. It is developed on top of new libpkg which is the high level library that does all the package management, it brings new features such as safe upgrade, (multi) repository support, integrity checking and more. It has been designed to be extensible while remaining fully compatible with the current FreeBSD ports tree.