Re: NetBSD/alpha on qemu-system-alpha

[john%ziaspace.com@localhost]

Hi,

> Compliments for how great it works, I think its awesome! I have a few 
> questions though:

Thank you for your writeup! We can address one thing quickly:

> - 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.

I see that packages are still pulling from 2021Q1, not 2021Q2, and that 
the pkg_summary.bz2 is a bit smaller than expected, so I fixed that. Old:

-rw-rw-r--  1 jklos  netbsd  1245184 Jun 26 03:47 pkg_summary.bz2
-rw-rw-r--  1 jklos  netbsd  4525806 Jun 26 03:47 pkg_summary.gz

New:

-rw-rw-r--  1 jklos  netbsd  3067952 Aug 20 05:29 pkg_summary.bz2
-rw-rw-r--  1 jklos  netbsd  4525806 Jun 26 03:47 pkg_summary.gz

Please test! Also, it's safe to switch to 2021Q2, so the symlink will be 
updated presently on the server.

Thanks for all your hard work!

John