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RE: Insights from successful, yet painful, install attempt.



http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amiga/9.0_2021Q3/All/

Or here, which is updated several times a week:

http://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0_2021Q3/All/
What is the difference between that repo and the "official" one? [1]. If 
I already installed packages from [1], can I switch to these ones. It is 
so nice to see fvwm there, although I was expecting version 2, not 
version 3.
[1] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amiga/9.2/All/
The fast ports build quickly enough that the full bulk build set is 
uploaded after the bulk build is finished. If we did that with m68k, we 
might have to wait a year or more, so instead it's a best-effort kind of 
thing - the build runs, and I upload incrementally.
pkg.zia.io is my own working repository. Packages are uploaded there often 
so that make bin-install on other machines in different locations (which 
are not using any sort of shared filesystem) can get access to packages 
built on other machines relatively quickly.
Once a week, those are synced to ftp.NetBSD.org, which then is 
automatically propagated to cdn.NetBSD.org.
The 9.2 directory isn't really a directory - it's a symlink which 
currently points to 9.0_2021Q2. Only after the new quarter has more 
packages than the previous do we consider switching the symlink to the new 
quarter. However, anyone is welcome to use the newer one, if it has what 
you're looking for.
Switching from one quarter to the next shouldn't be a problem, but 
obviously, at least for a while, there'll have been packages in the 
previous quarter that aren't in the new quarter for a while.
John


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