Re: Future of hpcsh packages collection

[Nikos Ntarmos <ntarmos%ceid.upatras.gr@localhost>]

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Hi there Michael.

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 04:26:54PM -0500, Michael Wileman wrote:
> 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.

That is true. I just had a look through the doc/pkgsrc.txt file on
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages (afaik the official source for
precompiled binaries) and it seems like only 200?-Q? binaries are
available for most archs. Perhaps a "compromise", such as building only
these packages plus security updates will be more suited to the
situation.

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