Re: pkgsrc question ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 04/04/15 10:25, Greg Troxel wrote:
> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> writes:
>
> > I pointed my browser to
> > ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/evbarm/7.0/All, just
> > to poke around & see what was there, & got a 550 back .... This is
> > what the PKG_PATH env.variable is set to, is this correct ? TIA & keep
> > up the good work :-) ....
> >
> > BTW:
> >
> > rpi # uname -a
> > NetBSD rpi 7.0_BETA NetBSD 7.0_BETA (RPI.201503272230Z) evbarm
> > rpi #
> The basic issues are
>
>    7 isn't really out, and there aren't necessarily bulk builds for it,
>    even though they'd be useful.
>
>    finding things, and having the symlinks be perfect, is occasionally
>    not quite right.
>
> Looking on the ftp server, I see in pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/evbarm
>
> 7.2G    5.1_2011Q3
> 7.7G    5.1_2012Q1
> 10G     6.0_2012Q4
> 8.2G    6.0_2013Q4
> 7.6G    6.0_2014Q1
>
> none of which is 7, or wicked recent.   In general, what I do when not
> finding what I'm looking for is to move up in the path to find a dir
> that's there and then look around.
>
> There is a notion of having a README file to point to builds that have
> been done by non-developers or on machines that don't meet the security
> guidelines for official packages.  If you have any pointers to such
> builds let me know and I'd be happy to drop a README in the evbarm dir
> on the ftp server.

I am looking to stay strictly std., not looking for outsider builds, I 
was just curious that the URL was configured, but seemed inactive. It's 
not much of a problem, just a bit surprising. I am keeping this little 
guy pretty basic & buttoned down. In fact, it already seems to have 
*everything* i need for its task of being my ntp/timed server, I was 
mostly just curious about what else might be there. Thanks :-).

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