Re: Pkgsrc issue

[Don Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost>]

I truly appreciate the efforts of everyone on this list who has dedicated so much time and energy toward providing me with NetBSD and its packaged software.

NetBSD has been good to me. Thank you.

-dgl-

> On Apr 27, 2024, at 2:43 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 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.