I was wondering about how package builds would be done. I just compiled 
standalone-tcsh on my SE/30 and it took around two to three hours. I 
started a kernel compile last night and it is still going almost ten 
hours later.

I was also wondering if it is possible to cross-compile packages for 
m68k? I have a a number of servers in my own rack here at home and I 
would like to help out with some of the open source projects around. I 
have a 1Mbit link to the internet so I thought maybe I would run a 
mirror or something but I'm still not sure what would be most helpful 
to the NetBSD project.

What sort of bandwidth is needed for your 1U Amiga?

Thanks for the info. That is quite interesting.

Bryan

On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 11:30 US/Pacific, John Klos wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Is there a particular reason that there are not any packages available
>> for NetBSD/mac68k 1.6? Just wondering because they exist for the
>> previous versions and I was surprised that they aren't there for 1.6.
>
> Binary packages take a while to build, and the fastest m68k systems
> available are 50 - 66 MHz 68060s. I have a 60 MHz 68060 Amiga with UW 
> SCSI
> and 128 megs of memory doing this task, and things were running just 
> fine
> for almost a month, but the primary pkg disk died (head crash), so
> everything needed to get set up again and started from scratch.
>
> Current status: 25.8%. However, the progress is not linear; all of the
> simple packages (packages without dependencies) are built first, 
> followed
> by packages with dependencies. Because many of the common packages are
> simple packages, I will upload what has already been built in a week or
> so, when I expect the progress to be around 50%.
>
> Other package building news (since I'm talking about it, I might as 
> well
> give you the whole scoop): I have a 1U Amiga with a 50 MHz 68060, 256 
> megs
> of memory, and an UW SCSI 18 gig drive (and maybe, soon, a really big 
> IDE
> on an IDE - SCSI adapter on the SCSI bus) which I'd like to set up to 
> do
> nothing but package builds and an occasional source tree build. I'm
> currently looking to find a colo provider to donate the space and (very
> minimal) power and bandwidth.
>
> Thanks,
> John Klos
> Sixgirls Computing Labs
>
>