Subject: Re: 3.0 packages?
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/11/2006 18:50:05
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 05:46:11PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 06:15:27PM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> >>On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:50:57PM +1100, Dimitris wrote:
> >>>I wanted to install a couple of extra packages but I can't find
> >>>anything at the usual place at  ftp.netbsd.org. Any ideas when they
> >>>will be ready, or where should I look for them?
> >>
> >>there are no 3.0/sparc active bulk builds that i am aware of.
> >>manuel?
> >
> >I have a 3.0/sparc build running since a few weeks. It's at:
> >2006/01/11 12:56:04  5337/5738=93.0% math/octave @ sparc> [...]
> >will need a week or 2, there are still some monsters to build.
> >
> >FYI I also have a 2.1 build running, but it's only at
> >2006/01/10 10:07:30  3948/5664=69.7% lang/erlang @ sparc>
> 
> 	Is there any sense in putting up what has been built already?
> 	It should be an internally consistent set of packages....
> 
> 	If we wanted to go overboard the slower platforms could upload
> 	every week with a README that indicated how much had been done :)

The problem is that I don't think the upload script can safely be run while
the build is running. It wants to install some extra packages (e.g. gnupg).


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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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