Subject: Re: binary pkgs for 2.0 using 2.0_BETA
To: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/03/2004 15:08:07
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On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:46:51AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> I'm wondering if it's possible to build binary packages on NetBSD-2.0_BETA
> in such a way that the binary packages appear, in every way, to have
> been built on NetBSD-2.0.  My reason for asking this is that the
> upcoming 2.0 release will not significantly differ from 2.0_BETA, and
> most (if not all) packages built using 2.0_BETA will be usable on 2.0.
> I would like to be able pre-generate NetBSD-2.0 binary packages using
> 2.0_BETA on some slow platforms, e.g. mac68k, that can take many, many
> weeks to bulk build pkgsrc.  Is this possible?  I'm soliciting solutions
> as well as implementations of these solutions to improve our release
> process, both for NetBSD and for pkgsrc itself.

pkgtools/libkver :-)

I use that and a 2.0_BETA chroot on -current to build
mozilla/firefox/thunderbird for 2.0.

grant.


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