Subject: Re: pkgsrc -- cool!
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@metronet.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/09/1999 12:22:36
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bob Nestor wrote:

> Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu> wrote:
> 
> >There aren't any 1.4 binary packages for mac68k on the netbsd ftp
> >site.  I'd like to offer the perl packages I built.  However, although
> >the docs give a detailed set of instructions on creating packages from
> >scratch, they're a little sketchy when it comes to submission of
> >binaries built this way (sect 2.3.3 of "Packages.txt" makes a cross
> >reference to another section containing a footnote to "add more info
> >here".
> 
> I built about 576 packages for 1.4 on the m68k platform and put them on 
> CDs last month.  Copies were sent to both the East and West Coast to 
> folks who have access to copy thme up to the NetBSD Server.  Maybe they 
> got lost in the mail?  Or someone got tied up on other things?

Your CD arrived today, and is sitting in my macppc.

I've never uploaded packages before, so I'm not sure how/where to put
them. ftp.netbsd.org obviously but....

Take care,

Bill