Re: FireFox versions for NETBSD-HEAD

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Bob:
  'RUST_TYPE=src' failed. I still got the same library-missing error.

On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 5:57 AM Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> ATM you get:
>
> # uname -a
> NetBSD ymir 9.99.92 NetBSD 9.99.92 (GENERIC) #15: Fri Nov 19 23:26:42
> GMT 2021  sysbuild@ymir:/home/sysbuild/amd64/obj/home/sysbuild/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
> amd64
> # pkg_info firefox
> Information for firefox-94.0.1:
> ...
>
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 at 00:48, Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> >
> > > 'uname -s' gives 'NetBSD'  (is that even correct?)
> >
> > Language can be so tricky. In the sense of being a "legal"
> > argument to 'uname,' 's' is correct (it's listed in uname's
> > manpage synopsis), but I meant to type 'uname -a' so that the
> > version number would print..
> >
> > > I dont like to merely state "NetBSD-HEAD" that could be the
> > > latest release from yesterday. The dates matter. It was a
> > > release from today (19 Novemver 2021)
> >
> > Perhaps someone with knowledge of the matter -- I don't fit that
> > description -- will help us out, but I don't think of 'HEAD" as
> > a "release.' I think of HEAD as synonymous with 'current,' and
> > reserve the term 'release' for sets of files officially titled
> > using that word.
> >
> > Yes, I'm like this at home; just ask my wife.
> >
> > 9-)
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > "...that there is no getting away from the central position of the individual I believe anyone can see for himself merely by observing that the individual does not regard the following to be a senseless question: "Under what conditions would you draw the conclusion that everyone in the world except yourself had gone crazy?"
> >
> > Percy Bridgman _The Nature of Physical Theory_
> >                              (1936)
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