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Re: NetBSD 6.0_BETA: cut-over and what Package Source to use?
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Mike Riechers wrote:
I'm downloading NetBSD 6.0_BETA now, and I expect that it will
be swell. Thank you very much for this release.
But I've got a couple of questions:
1. When was the cut-over from NetBSD current? Specifically, when
I upgrade from NetBSD Current NetBSD 5.99.56 (GENERIC), 12 November 2011,
amd64, am I safe?
I used the then package source _current_ to make emacs, bash, etc. Is this
compatible with 6.0_BETA?
If packages are already installed, no problem.
However, I upgraded one of my boxes, deleted all packages, and installed
a set of packages that were built on 5.99.52. Most of them installed
without any problem, although most of them did display a warning that
the binary packages had been built on the earlier release.
A few packages depend specifically on having an osabi package built for
the current version, and those packages would not install using the
osabi that had been built for 5.99.52. I manually re-built and
reinstalled osabi on my 6.99.2 system, along with x11links, and then
everything was able to install successfully.
2. What pkgsrc should I use to regenerate emacs, bash, etc. Should I use
the same pkgsrc as for 5.2, or pkgsrc current?
If you're rebuilding from source you should not have any problems.
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