On Jan,Tuesday 15 2008, at 2:10 PM, Sebastian Wasilewski wrote:

> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>>> Can I install packages from
>>> NetBSD 4.0 safely ?
>>
>> There were big changes in threading libraries. To be safe I would  
>> rebuild
>> from sources.
>
> Thank you for your reply. Is there an easy way to rebuild packages
> automatically ? Something like emerge for Gentoo, that would  
> download a
> source of all required packages, rebuild them and install?
>
> I cannot imagine how much time I would have to spend to rebuild  
> manually
> all packages I would like to install.
>

You can look at wip/pkgmanager where wip is pkgsrc wip CVS repository.
I use it with my notebook and it works good.

http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/

Regards

Adam.