Re: Future of hpcsh packages collection

[Michael Wileman <jwileman%panix.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Nikos Ntarmos wrote:

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> Hi there.
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> Having a central repository of binary packages for hpcsh sounds like a
> great idea! It would be even better if we could have both a -current and
> the latest 200?-Q? versions of packages, if (building) resources allow
> so.
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> I understand that certain (the majority of?) packages can't be
> cross-compiled (otherwise there would be bulk-builds for the hpcsh too
> and we wouldn't have this discussion). FWIW I have a Jornada 690 that I
> don't carry around any more and which could be set up as a building
> machine of sorts (the fact that I call this little fellow a "building
> machine" makes my jiggle at least), with ssh access and all. I also
> believe that there may be more people like me who could spare a cycle or
> two on their hpcsh hardware for building ports for their peers. People
> might jump at the idea of installing binary packages compiled by persons
> not affiliated with the NetBSD Foundation, but then again this is
> exactly the current situation with NetBSD/hpcsh.
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> Any thoughts on that?

How do you propose to keep this current? Torsten's website works 
pretty well now, but depends upon volunteer compilers. Keeping 
packages up to date will require a lot of recompiling, and that is 
going to be time consuming unless the packages can be cross-compiled.

Mike