Re: missing xen packages on ftp

[Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hello Maxime,

Maxime Villard writes:
> I've searched through all of the recent directories in
>
> 	http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/i386/
>
> And there is not a single xentools package. xenkernel is there, sometimes,
> but version 4.2, which is outdated and doesn't receive security updates
> anymore.
>
> Can we bring them back, please? At a time they were there, and you could
> just do pkgin on a fresh install. Why do packages disappear like that?

I think because all xen{kernel,tools} packages (except the `42' ones)
have (at regarding NetBSD):

 ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM+=     NetBSD-[5-9].*-x86_64

I think that support for i386 was removed in 4.3.