Re: riscv image instructions under qemu "user network mode" do not work

On Jul 13, 2025, at 13:32, John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> wrote:

If you've gotten your RISC-V system booted and online, then you can use these binary packages for pkgsrc and pkgin. Set PKG_PATH to this as explained at https://www.pkgsrc.org to:

https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/riscv64/current_2025Q2/All/

And you should have a good collection of packages. There's only about 5000 right now, since there's no official RISC-V release yet.

John

Thanks! I exported PKG_PATH as instructed, but there’s no pkgin there AFAICT:

riscv64# set | grep PKG

PKG_PATH=https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/riscv64/current_2025Q2/All/

riscv64# export PKG_PATH

riscv64# pkg_add pkgin

pkg_add: no pkg found for 'pkgin', sorry.

pkg_add: 1 package addition failed

However it looks like 2025Q1 has it.

riscv64# PKG_PATH=https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/riscv64/current_2025Q1/All/

riscv64# pkg_add pkgin

pkg_add: pkgin-24.12.0: warning: was built for a different platform:

pkg_add: NetBSD/riscv64 10.99 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/riscv64 10.99.14 (this host)

pkg_add: pkg_install-20250219: warning: was built for a different platform:

pkg_add: NetBSD/riscv64 10.99 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/riscv64 10.99.14 (this host)

pkg_add: sqlite3-3.48.0: warning: was built for a different platform:

pkg_add: NetBSD/riscv64 10.99 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/riscv64 10.99.14 (this host)

pkgin-24.12.0: copying /usr/pkg/share/examples/pkgin/repositories.conf.example to /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf

alas pkgin doesn’t seem to work I expected it to:

riscv64# pkgin search emacs

processing remote summary (https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/riscv64/10.99/All)...

pkgin: Could not fetch https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/riscv64/10.99/All/pkg_summary.gz: Not Found

as it’s searching https://cdn.netbsd.org, not https://pkg.zia.io

Thanks,

Tommy