earmv7hf packages pulling in 1600+ dependencies when already installed

[Michael Blatt <michael.blatt%gmail.com@localhost>]

Excellent news regarding the binary packages sets - what branch of pkgsrc are they based on?

Some packages want to draw 6GB worth of dependencies when they really shouldn’t, just wondering whether my setup is to blame.
I see this on earmv7hf not on earmv6hf - likely no one else has seen this?
pkgsrc-2015Q4, NetBSD 7.99.26

For example, colorls (other examples include mediatomb, minicom, and several others I’ve tried)
It’s already installed. Trying to (re)install it yields:
                                                                                                        
rpi2$ cat /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf  
ftp://ftp2.fr.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv7hf/7.0/All

rpi2$ grep BINPKG /etc/mk.conf                  
BINPKG_SITES=ftp://ftp2.fr.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv7hf/7.0/

rpi2$ cd /usr/pkgsrc/misc/colorls      
rpi2$ make show-depends
rpi2$
rpi2$ pkgin list
colorls-2.2nb1       Uses color with ls(1) to display file attributes
[20 other packages]

rpi2$ pkgin in colorls
calculating dependencies... done.

nothing to upgrade.
1689 packages to be installed (1037M to download, 5197M to install):

[…] (loooooooong list of packages)  
...p5-Data-Dump-1.23 p5-Class-Method-Modifiers-2.11nb1 php-5.5.30 p5-Business-ISBN-2.09nb1 postgresql91-client-9.1.19 perl-5.22.0 p5-URI-1.69 p5-MIME-Types-2.12 p5-IPC-Run-0.94nb1

proceed ? [Y/n] n
rpi2$ 

Beats me. Anyone seeing this too? If not, it’ll be my setup on that specific box…


Cheers
M.




> On 31 Jan 2016, at 00:38, Jeff Rizzo <riz%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> The official announcement of the cluster for building binary packages for ARM platforms is still a few weeks off, but I'm happy to say that a full set (~14,000 binary packages each) are available for NetBSD 7.0 for the earmv6hf  and earmv7hf architectures. (earmv6hf is good for the original raspberry pi, earmv7hf is good for most other recent boards, from Beaglebone to ODROID-C1 and Raspberry Pi 2)
> 
> Once the set for earm is available in a few days or weeks, most modern arm boards will be covered. We'll be announcing the build cluster (which is sponsored by the NetBSD Foundation) at that time.
> 
> The binary packages are available at:
> 
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv6hf/7.0/All
> and
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv7hf/7.0/All
> 
> The intention going forward is that, if you're using pkgin to manage your binary packages, you should be able to set the repository to:
> 
> http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$(uname -p)/$(uname -r|cut -f 1-2 -d .| cut -f 1 -d _)/All
> 
> ...and get the appropriate binary packages for your OS.  We're not quite there yet, but that's the goal.
> 
> Enjoy,
> +j
> 
>