Re: Bulk for HEAD

[Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Greg Troxel writes:
> Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
>
> > If I run a bulk build for my 10.99.10, will the packages be compatible
> > with 10.99.xx (for xx > 10)?
>
> Maybe, but that question is really about current's ABI compat policy
> more than pkgsrc.  I suspect the answer is "probably", but that current
> doesn't have a rule against breaking ABI compat with earlier current.
>
> The other question, that you didn't ask and might or might not care
> about, is if you install such a set, and then build some of your own,
> will things be ok.  Again, only probably, and not if there is an ABI
> change.

Yes, it was maybe not the right place to ask this question. I am aware 
that an ABI change can break some things and it is not a pkgsrc issue.

> > If not, would there be a way to provide
> > bulk builds for HEAD (without building ~40 GB of packages for each
> > version increment)?
>
> It's not about the version, which is about the in-kernel ABI.   It needs
> to be rebuilt every time there is a userland ABI change.   But no, there
> is no way to do this without doing it -- and thus I don't really follow
> your question.

I understand that the ABI is bound to evolve and there is probably no 
solution (which is not convoluted) to provide sets of packages which is 
compatible with a given ABI.