Re: Bulk builds do not run on NetBSD 9.2

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 06:18:10AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 10:50:06PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 02:17:20PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>  > > That's sort of true, but as I see it there are two reasonable setups:
>  > > 
>  > >   1) base system does not have *any* support for pkgsrc, and you unpack a
>  > >   bootstrap kit which is self consistent
>  > > 
>  > >   2) base system has pkgsrc tools that are configured the same way as
>  > >   standard builds, so that base tools and standard build tools work
>  > >   together
>  > 
>  > So far I have heard two arguments for why NetBSD is doing (2), even
>  > ignoring the classic "It has always been that way":
>  > 
>  > 1) Hope that syspkgs becomes a reality.
>  > 2) Because pkgsrc must be special on NetBSD.
>  > 
>  > Neither argument is good and I'd strongly argue that the second one has
>  > even created more harm than good both for NetBSD and pkgsrc.
> 
> No, the reason is so that things work out of the box. I have yet to
> understand why you and a few other people have been calling for years
> to break it.

Funny. We have this discuss ever so often because it does NOT work out
of the box, especially down the line of a release cycle. But I'll leave
it here as rehashing the discussion again is not a good use of the few
spare cycles I have.

Joerg