Editing Pkgsrc (section)

== History ==
On October 3, 1997, NetBSD developers Alistair Crooks and Hubert Feyrer created pkgsrc<ref name="10yrs-pt1"/> based on the FreeBSD ports system and intended to support the NetBSD packages collection. It was officially released as part of NetBSD 1.3<ref>{{cite web|url=//www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-1.3/|title=Information about NetBSD 1.3}}</ref> on January 4, 1998. [[DragonFly BSD]] used pkgsrc as its official package system from version 1.4 in 2006, to 3.4 in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-08/msg00347.html |first=Matthew |last=Dillon |title=PKGSRC will be officially supported as of the next release |publisher=DragonFly users mailing list |date=2005-08-31}}</ref>{{r|informit-2006}}

On 2017-09-12, a commit message policy that accommodates [[Distributed version control|DVCS]] was established by the project.{{r|dvcs}}