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Re: Why do I want to "get pkgsrc"?



Hi!

On Wed, 2023-03-01 20:21:32 -0600, Qingyao Sun <sunqingyao19970825%icloud.com@localhost> wrote:
> From my perspective, chapter 5 should be in the position of chapter
> 3, as this is what a typical user would care most. On the other
> hand, I don’t see the purpose of having the source of very single
> package in /usr/pkgsrc: I wonder why do I, as a user, ever want to
> do that instead of downloading packages on demand from
> http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/$(uname -s)/$(uname
> -m)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All?

While, from an user perspective, the order of chapters isn't too
helpful for the simple task of just installing some random binary
package, I just realized that it would be helpful to have an
additional symlink in the individual machine directories, as the above
command would not produce a proper URL. I learned that when, for
automated VAX installations it broke from 9.3 -> 10.0, because we're
not with quarterly snapshots. That alone could be done with $(date) as
well, but looking at
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mvmeppc/new-10.0_2022Q4/All/,
there's also a 'new-' in the path... So a "current" symlink would be
nice to have...

Thanks,
  Jan-Benedict

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