On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:48:55PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
  | Okay, I admit it. I've been paying way too little attention.
  | 
  | Can I expect to pull down netbsd-1-6 on my i386 workstation with the
  | really fast (160 MB/s) SCSI and build a snapshot for my macppc
  | machine?
  | 
  | Can I reliably do that only with -current?
  | 
  | Not at all?
  | 
  | I can accept it if the install media can't be created (the only
  | hangup I recall with -current from around the time of 1.5.3's
  | release).

The entire "base" (non xsrc) build of NetBSD 1.6 on the macppc as
shipped was cross-built as a non-root user using read-only source on
a dual processor NetBSD/i386 box.  (along with ~ 35 other platforms).

IIRC, there was a problem with the macppc INSTALL kernel or bootblocks
in "1.6", but I think that's been fixed the netbsd-1-6 branch since
that time.

The "cross buildability" of NetBSD has improved since NetBSD 1.6 was branched.

As for building -current on a 1.6 box; I do that all the time.
My main build box is a i386 running 1.6.1_RC2, and I cross build
i386-current and sparc-current on it regularly.


Luke.