El 11/6/26 a las 18:31, Greg Troxel escribió:
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:El 11/6/26 a las 16:17, Greg Troxel escribió:Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:Thanks so much Robert for your explanation, I appreciatte it very much and I understand it better now. I am going to try NetBSD-11 and see what happens.The real question is what are you trying to do.I was doing anything serious, I was bored and only tried to compile full NetBSD from Linux, just as an exercise following the NetBSD Guide (it sounds cool to compile a full OS from another OS). I choose NetBSD-current just for choosing something and see what happened.Totally reasonable to build just to build. it ought to work.
Hi Greg Yes, doing that may help expose build issues.
If you want the very latest, and you are ok with running into build issue, waiting, and retrying, and perhaps trouble with the system when booted, and are ok with using /rescue and/or booting off saved bootable media, then you can of course run current if you want.No, I do not have the expertise to fight with the OS at such level ;-)You don't need to deal with those things to build. And if you have a spare computer, or you set up a VM (qemu/nvmm, or under some other OS), you can install it and try it. It is only when you have valuable data on it, or you need it to work, that you might have troubles.
Great. I have here several not critical computers to test things. Even 2 old 32 bit Intel laptops. The thing I would like to have is more free time to play with it! ;-)
I have a box running netbsd-11 and xen. It has 5 domU systems, most of amd64/i386 x 9/10/11 (but not i386-11). I use it to build packages, for systems I have elsewhere, and for the next os versions of those systems. I'm on the verge of dropping 9 and adding current. I use to have amd64 current but I took the exit ramp to netbsd-11 when it branched. I didn't mean to discourage you from trying things, only to caution you that if you are relying on a system working and it being not working would inconvenience you, current is not the best choice. If you are totally fine with it not working, it's just fine.
No problem at all Greg, I always read carefully all the suggestions and explanations shared by the experts on this mailing list, they are very valuable for me.
Regards. Ramiro.