Subject: Re: Binary package rollups
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Pederson <michael@galaxy.plethora.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/10/1999 22:10:07
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>On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Michael Pederson wrote:
>> It says something like "please contact us for details".  So who's the
>> 'us' to contact for details?
>
>Bah, old documentation.
>The story is: in order to protect the users of NetBSD packages downloaded
>from the official site from any mallicious package, we only accept
>packages made by NetBSD developers. This means you're out of luck here,
>but you still can put them up somewhere else and let people know where to
>find them.

Ah, bummer.  I guess I'll have to start scrounging for more disk space...

What would it take to make http://galaxy.plethora.net/ the official
repository of unoffical sparc binary tarballs?  (Or unofficially
unofficial. :-)  (I've got a few packages there now from 1.4, but I'm
rapidly running out of disk.)
- --
"I spend far too much time enslaved as a heretic."  --Peter Seebach

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