Modernising FreeBSD package management
Channel: Andrea Ross
Date: 19/05/2012

pkgng is a new package manager for FreeBSD, it aims at bringing modern package management features for FreeBSD

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.