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A practical comparison of the FreeBSD Ports Collection and the pkg binary package manager, and how to use both together without breaking your system.
A complete walkthrough building your own signed FreeBSD package repository — useful for internal packages, pinned versions, or a local mirror.
First released August 30, 2012 after two years of development, pkgng consolidated FreeBSD's fragmented package tools into a single command backed by a real database — and became official in FreeBSD 10.
pkg install fails, or a port won't build. Here's a systematic way to tell whether it's a stale catalog, a broken dependency, or a genuinely broken port.