Editing Pkgsrc (section)

== Packages ==

[[NetBSD#The NetBSD Foundation|The NetBSD Foundation]] provides official, pre-built binary packages for multiple combinations of NetBSD and pkgsrc releases, and occasionally for certain other operating systems as well.<ref name=tnf-packages>{{Cite web|url=http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/|title=Index of pub/PKGSRC/Packages/}}</ref>

As of 2018, several vendors provide pre-built binary packages for several platforms:

* Since at least 2014,<ref name=joyent/> [[Joyent]] has provided binary packages for [[SmartOS]]/[[illumos]], [[macOS]],<ref name=pkgsrc-osx/> and Enterprise Linux ([[CentOS]]/[[Oracle Linux|Oracle]]/[[Red Hat Enterprise Linux|Red Hat]]/[[Scientific Linux|Scientific]]).<ref name=pkgsrc-linux/><ref name=joyent>{{cite web
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715002720/http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
|title=Joyent's packages, available for SmartOS/illumos, Linux, and OSX
|archive-date=2014-07-15
|access-date=2018-10-11
|url=http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/
|url-status=live
}}</ref>  Packages are provided on a [[rolling release]] basis from the [[trunk (software)|trunk]] (HEAD, in [[Concurrent Versions System|CVS]] terminology) of pkgsrc, with updates every few days;<ref name=pkgsrc-osx/> additionally, quarterly stable releases of pkgsrc for Joyent's own SmartOS are also provided (dating back to 2012Q4).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/packages/|title = Index of /Packages/}}</ref>

* Since 2017,<ref name=msg025383/> [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]] has provided binary packages for NetBSD, [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux|RHEL]]/[[CentOS]], and [[Darwin (operating system)|Darwin]]/[[macOS]].<ref name=uwm>{{cite web
|url=http://mirror1.hpc.uwm.edu/pkgsrc/packages/sharedapps/
|title=mirror1.hpc.uwm.edu/pkgsrc/
|access-date=2018-10-11
}}</ref><ref name=uwm2>{{cite web
|url=https://uwm.edu/hpc/software-management/
|title=Software Management
|publisher=[[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]], [[High Performance Computing]] dept
|access-date=2018-10-11
}}</ref>  Packages are only built from the quarterly releases of pkgsrc, aiding use in [[long-term experiment]]s, where stability and [[reproducibility]] of the [[scientific method|findings]] is of the essence.<ref name=msg025383>{{cite mailing list
|url=http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2017/08/01/msg025383.html
|title=Re: Pkgsrc binary packages now available for scientific computing
|mailing-list=pkgsrc-users
|publisher=[[NetBSD]]
|date=2017-08-01
|access-date=2018-10-13
}}</ref>