Subject: Re: Proper use of .../NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz
To: Bill Squier <groo@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/16/1999 11:48:12
pkgsrc is designed to still be usable on the last release, so you
_should_ be fine.
Of course once 1.4 comes out, you probably want to be switching
across :)
David/absolute
Then let us live and love so that people will say;
"The devil as well as god... is an englishman."
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Bill Squier wrote:
>
> Up until last week I was keeping my /usr/pkgsrc up to date using
> NetBSD-current's pkgsrc.tar.gz. It wasn't until the recent changes
> (bsd.own.mk) and the small bug ( ... || ${TRUE} in shared a.out libs ) that it
> dawned on me that for a 1.3.3 system, this might not be a Good Thing.
>
> Is there an official mechanism to keep a released system's /usr/pkgsrc current
> (with respect to included packages, not NetBSD-current)?
>
> I browsed through mail-index.netbsd.org but didn't see much on the topic.
> Pointers to past discussions welcome.
>
>
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