Re: [7.0-BETA on RPI] Some corrections!

[Nick Hudson <skrll%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 05/02/15 23:02, Yass Amed wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've successfully installed NetBSD 7-Beta (2015-04-29) on the raspberry pi
> (Model B), and noticed a few things
> that might need some attention (nothing major at the moment):
>
> * While the instructions in <
> https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/> are useful,
> the "growing the root file-system" section states that it is "not required
> with NetBSD -current after 2015-04-07"
> might not be true because I had to follow the instructions in order to
> expand the root slice.
> (OR) I'm misunderstanding what the NetBSD-Current is. As stated above,
> 'uname -a' yields NetBSD 7.0-BETA.

-current will become NetBSD 8. NetBSD 7 doesn't include the automatic 
resize (yet).



> * The other thing is, with the above version installed, the export path in
> ".profile" that points to the pkg-repo looks
> in the wrong folder. By using $(uname -m), pkg_add will look in "evbarm"
> instead of "earmv6hf" which in turn contains
> the folder "7.0" (evbarm does not yet).


This needs looking into, I think. Not sure what the best solution is...

Nick