Re: missing xen packages on ftp

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 25/07/2018 à 19:27, Leonardo Taccari a écrit :
> 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 but version 4.2, which is outdated and doesn't receive security updates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.

Then how can we install an i386PAE dom0? Isn't that still available in the
latest version? I'm getting confused now.

Nonetheless, there should be a xentools42, right? This one is supposed to
be supported, it does have NetBSD-[5-9].*-i386.