Jan Schaumann <jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> wrote: > Unfortunately, it has repeatedly been the case that the NetBSD AMIs > listed on http://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/amis/ are not working > reliably. A common problem that I've observed myself is that they > simply cannot be ssh'd to, despite network access being open. Is there > anything known about this issue? For those interested, I've filed PR misc/46306. It seems to be intermittent and dependent on which hypervisor the instance ends up being placed on; sometimes the same AMI will in fact produce a working instance, othertimes it will not. I've only observed this with the i386 AMIs. > - in comparison to other systems, including, in particular, FreeBSD, our > use of pkgsrc with binary packages is quite cumbersome. This is a > quite serious issue for casual and novice users, who may not (yet?) > understand or appreciate pkgsrc's strength I've been pointed at the 'pkgin' tool, which might help with installation of binary packages. I have not yet used this tool, but it sounds like it's going in the right direction. > - some of the packages built for NetBSD 6.0 Beta simply do not work (on > the AMIs?): apache-2.2.21* installed, but the executable failed with > missing or conflicting dependencies (I have not yet had the time to > file a PR, I'm afraid) I had filed PR pkg/46309 for this. Apparently apache depends on a library found in the xbase set, but pkgsrc has no way of expressing such a dependence. -Jan
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