thelarsons3@cox.net wrote:

> I've noticed that binary packages for NetBSD (mac68k in particular) lag behind the latest released versions for many softwares.  Either not compiled for the latest NetBSD version, or it's an old software version, or both.  Is this package-building process largely automated or does it require significant manual effort?  How does it work?  Who/what does it?  I hope this doesn't fall into the RTM/common knowledge realm...I don't know, and figured other readers of this list might not either.

As far as I know, John Klos does the package builds for m68k based 
systems. Because the fastest m68k based machine is only a 66 MHz 68060, 
it takes a really long time to build packages. From what I remember, it 
takes two or three weeks to do a complete package build.

There was some discussion a while back about creating some sort of 
distributed build system to get all of this accomplished more quickly. I 
  am about to setup a cluster of mac68k machines to do package builds. I 
always want to have the latest packages available myself too.

It would be great to get the distributed package build system project 
back on track. Is anyone still interested?

Bryan