Brian Chase wrote:

>On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, der Mouse wrote:
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>>>Confirm what?  That the VAX-port isn't built natively regularly?
>>>That I can confirm.  I usually do builds of -current now and again
>>>(on the 8650), and hits snags that the core group don't notice.
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>>This is what I was afraid of when the cross-build stuff went in, that
>>NetBSD would end up shipping code with bugs that went unnoticed because
>>they didn't show up in a cross build.
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>I think we'll be alright as long as we get more VAX people tracking
>and compiling -current.  It doesn't require too much in the way of
>resources.  I'm managing alright with my 56kb/s dialup and a few GB of
>spare disk space.  The bottleneck in the process ends up being VAX cpu
>cycles. :-)
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>-brian.
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I have extra vaxen currently powered off. I have IDLE; 2 VaxStation 
3100/72 32MB MEM and 3 VaxStation 4000/90 32MB MEM.

What should I setup to help? I think they have NetNSD 1.6 on them 
currently as I try to track release best I can.

Is 1.6 the right version to set up a native built box that tracks 
-current? I have 384/128 DSL with 5 static IPs and a 60GB NetBSD 
fileserver that can spare 10 or 20 GB for the VAXEN effort. I would be 
willing to buy another if needed and it helps keep NetBSD working on VAX.

I figure I would set up a native build box and then perhaps second box 
to boot and run your regression tests. I have little knowledge of the 
testing setup NetBSD kernel uses. Please advise on a setup preference. I 
prefer to leave only one VAX server on 7/24 since I already have several 
PC and servers running and have a small house with 100A power. On the 
plus side winter is here and the basement could use the heat :)

I suppose after that I could look into a pkgsrc builder. It seems that 
even native binaries for NETBSD releases is lacking let alone for 
current packages. Lots of compile cycles for that I am sure. I have 
limited skills to diagnose kernel or package problems but I do not mind 
donating electric power and vax cycle for NetBSD. I would not mind 
allowing NetBSD/Vax folks to SSH in to view/adjust things and perform 
regressions.

Let me know how to help.

Cheers
Joe Wehrli