dreckly

February 17, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

dreckly is a framework for building software for a variety of UNIX-like systems. dreckly is a fork of pkgsrc, with a specific focus on the following mission:

To provide a useful collection of software for all UNIX-like systems.

To achieve that mission we are guided by our principle values:

  • Portability
  • Stability
  • Robustness
  • Maintainability

Further background on our mission and values can be found here.

Dreckly is a Cornish word that means a task will be done at some point in the future. "I'll do it dreckly". There's no mad rush to do things as quickly as possible, with no thought to the consequences. Quality takes time and consideration. This is very much our ethos.

Bootstrapping

To use dreckly, you first need to bootstrap:

cd bootstrap
./bootstrap

Note that this is only for the most simple case, using all defaults.

Please consult bootstrap/README and bootstrap/README.OS for detailed information about bootstrapping.

Building packages

cd category/package-name
$PREFIX/bin/bmake install

Where $PREFIX is where you've chosen to install packages (typically /usr/pkg)

On NetBSD, bmake is simply the built-in make tool.

To build packages in bulk, tools such as pkgtools/pbulk and pkgtools/pkg_comp can be used.

Community / Troubleshooting

Tutorials and guides related to pkgsrc are still applicable to dreckly.