Re: Pkgsrc issue

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Don Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost> writes:

> I have extra static IPs, and several PPC Mac mini machines. I wonder
> how hard it would be for me to set one up with enough disk space to do
> bulk builds. Would that even be helpful? I imagine that to be useful,
> a machine would have to have some administrative massaging to set up
> users/ssh/ftp/etc.

You building our own packages is useful for you.  You are welcome to
make them available, and we list sets that are long-term maintained in
SEE_ALSO.  We have a rule that only packages built on machines
controlled by TNF members are posted on ftp.netbsd.org.

> I have not done the pkgsrc bootstrap for quite a while, and don’t know
> how much disk space I would need. Fortunately, NetBSD 8.2 on PPC seem
> to be very stable, so running for a couple of weeks on a build should
> be fine.

I meant that if you need a small subset of packages, then building those
yourself is reasonable.  If you try to build the entire set, it's
going to take a very long time.   For example, I build what I need for
earmv7hf-el myself, but my setup would take years to build the full set,
and it doens't have enough memory.