Re: NetBSD/alpha on qemu-system-alpha

[Darren Goossens <darren.goossens%gmail.com@localhost>]

I may well be wrong, but ... I suspect the pkgin error is actually the
result of an incomplete package database bz2 file on the server. I
suggest you download the pkg_summary.bz2 manually from the server and
check its integrity. Or even just click around the repo and compare
the size of pkg_summary.bz2 for a few different architectures -- you
may find yours is far too small to be realistic.

I had this problem when trying to update the ARM port on an RPi. After
another update occurred, the file was ok again.

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On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 15:33, Remy van Elst <relst%relst.nl@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Since there is so much exciting development on the QEMU side and since
> astr0baby's twitter is overflowing with NetBSD on all kinds of
> architectures at the moment, I thought, lets do a write up / guide on
> NetBSD for Alpha on QEMU. It is linked here:
>
>
> https://raymii.org/s/articles/NetBSD_on_QEMU_Alpha.html
>
>
> Compliments for how great it works, I think its awesome! I have a few
> questions though:
>
>
> - pkgin fails to update with an error (pkgin: Short read of pkg_summary:
> truncated bzip2 input), which, as far as I can find out (port-sparc
> list), is not something I can fix, but has to be "regenerated"? I'm now
> using pkg_add and source compilation via pkgsrc, which works fine as well.
>
> - Why do I need to provide the kernel to QEMU as (two, one for install,
> one after) a seperate file? The kernel is installed on disk after
> installation right?
>
> - What is the purpose of the two different kernel files? astr0baby just
> said, use them, but not why.
>
> - How do I handle updates for the kernel (in regards to the seperate
> qemu file)?
>
> - Installing any package that depends on GTK (like xfce4-wm or netsurf)
> takes long to install. xfce4-wm has been going for 18 hours now, either
> updating the gtk icon cache or some other post install process. Can I
> speed this up?
>
>
> Cheers and thanks again for the hard work!
>
> Remy
>
>