Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:

> 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.


I was wondering if there is additional work to make the software NetBSD 
specific for the package system, as well.

> 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?


If all it took was cycles on my machine, I'd gladly donate them.  I 
imagine the project maintainers would want things more tightly 
controlled though.

Tim

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