Subject: Re: newbie with pkgsrc
To: Soren Jacobsen <snj@pobox.com>
From: Mehul N. Sanghvi <msanghvi@quallaby.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/20/2004 16:08:15
Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 10/20 14:58, Mehul N. Sanghvi wrote:
> 

> 
> What version of NetBSD did you install?  1.6.2?  You'll find that some
> packages may not build with gcc2 (which is shipped with 1.6.2.).  php4,
> for instance, did not build on my last 1.6.2 bulk build.  At the time, php
> was at 4.3.4.  My most recent build (with NetBSD 2.0_BETA and the
> pkgsrc-2004Q3 branch) built php-4.3.8 just fine.  You may want to
> consider, at the very least, using gcc3.  But I'd really suggest giving
> 2.0_RC4 a try.



Yes, I have 1.6.2 installed on the Ultra 2.

How do I go about "upgrading" from 1.6.2 to 2.0_RC4 and the 
pkgsrc-2004Q3 branch ?   Or can I get ISO images for 2.0_RC4 from 
somewhere ?

And I am sure that there will be a lot of packages that will need to be 
upgraded to 2.0 from 1.x.  The Ultra 2, though not a fast system, will 
not be seeing too much usage on it, so I could potentialy be using it 
for building packages and doing QA type stuff on the ports.  Where do I 
go "sign up" for that kind of stuff ?


cheers,

     mehul