Subject: Re: soft updates
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar_Catri=E1n?= C. <ccatrian@eml.cc>
From: John Klos <john@klos.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/21/2004 23:17:38
> I had a problem with soft updates that was solved in NetBSD 2.0BETA, a couple of months ago.
> The problem derived in a lot of disk activity and system hangup usually triggered by unpacking some file, and buildlinking any package from pkgsrc.
> Today I was generating an image file using xcdroast, and the problem happened again. Nevertheless, the system works pretty fine with normal tasks.
> I am right now using sources from RC5.

Could you be a little more specific? What problem do you see?

John