Subject: Re: make update == make broken
To: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
From: Sean Davis <dive@endersgame.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 07/05/2005 10:42:33
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 02:07:52PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 07:33:12AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 12:10:59PM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:43:38AM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> > > > And the problem of backing up the packages if they're all going to be
> > > > deleted prior to building so that they can be reinstalled if they
> > > > don't build still needs to be addressed, for those of us who can't
> > > > afford a seperate build machine.
> > > 
> > > pkgtools/pkg_comp makes a fine separate build machine, without extra
> > > costs.  
> > 
> > Unless you consider the time required to build the release in addition to
> > the packages a cost.
> 
> Simply download the tarballs.  Or if you built your own system before with
> build.sh, do a ./build.sh release to get the tarballs for your system.  

I'm well aware of how to create a release. The problem is, just like
packages... NetBSD -current doesn't always build.