Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] The pkgsrc-2005Q4 branch
To: None <tech-pkg@pkgsrc.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/29/2005 21:32:36
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:21:00AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 07:52:43PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:17:27AM +0000, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> >> 
> >> The pkgsrc-2005Q4 Branch
> >> ========================
> >> 
> >> The pkgsrc developers are very proud to announce the new pkgsrc-2005Q4
> >> branch, which has support for more packages than previous branches. 
> >
> >Hi,
> >I'll build binary packages for pkgsrc-2005Q4 for NetBSD/i386 2.1 and 3.0,
> >and NetBSD/sparc 2.1 and 3.0. The i386 binary packages should
> >be available early january, sparc will  probably need a bit more time.
> 
> normally I build source when I setup a box (don't ask why, I don't
> really know). However I've recently setup a file server on 333Mhz
> hardware and decided to use pkgsrc (3.0) binaries... heh, only
> amd64 available. Eventually I figured out why ;)
> 
> But I was wondering... would it be possible to build the 10% most
> used packages for the most popular arches first.

Defining these 10% packages won't be easy. Letting the build system
decide the order based on dependancies is probably the easiest.
Anther issue is with the upload script. I'm quite sure I can't run it
while a build is running.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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