Re: mips64eb/mipsel packages also disappeared

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> чт, 18 дек. 2025 г., 16:27 Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>:
>
>> Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>>
>> > http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mips64eb/
>> > http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mipsel/

>> It's not a bug that they are empty.  There simply are no recent builds.
>>
>> You can look on archive.

> Yeah, but doesn't this mean that at least some build servers not with us
> anymore?

Builds on ftp.netbsd.org happen when either

  there is a TNF build server, run by TNF volunteers, or

  a TNF member does them on their own hardware

I am almost certain that there have never been TNF mips build servers.

> I do not see those arches tracked at Release Engineering (pkgsrc) page, so
> I guess it might come as surprize to anyone who try NetBSD on those arches

Every quarter, either someone does builds, or nobody does, for any arch.

I personally would be surprised if binary package sets were available
for most retrocomputing architecures....