Subject: Re: When NetBSD 4.0?
To: Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@alumni.uni-due.de>
From: =?UTF-8?B?UHJ6ZW15c8WCYXcgUGF3ZcWCY3p5aw==?= <pp@kv.net.pl>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/22/2007 06:49:08
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:18:45 +0100 (CET)
Mark Weinem <mark.weinem@alumni.uni-due.de> wrote:

> > 3) And why there're no "current" binaries? My Celeron 400 flint is
> > not a match to Athlon/Xeon/Pentium 4000+ 203mm heavy cruiser
> > cannons, not mentioning X2/X4 406 mm battleship monsters.
>
> The binaries are created when pkgsrc is in a stable state. After
> pkgsrc were frozen for 2 weeks (to hunt most of the serious bugs
> out). As a bulk build could take two weeks or longer, the resulting
> binaries would not really be "current" anymore.

Thanks for your patience. As I stated clearly I cannot compile _every_ pkgsrc item. There're the items' maintainers. Why we cannot create "unofficial" ftp site with "current binaries"?

Partially tested current pkgsrc/binaries will improve NetBSD 4 better then NetBSD 4 Beta tested with packages-2006Q4 binaries.

Regards,
pp
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Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp@kv.net.pl>

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