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NetBSD Packages Collection Freeze

Posted by timothy on from the admirable-restraint dept.

jschauma writes "Starting Monday, October 6th, 2003, the NetBSD Packages Collection will be frozen in order to stabilize pkgsrc on the various supported platforms. As Alistair Crooks explains in his message to the tech-pkg mailing list, this freeze is done so that the pkgsrc team can shake out bugs, fix broken packages and close pkgsrc related problem reports. If you want to help out, you can take a look at the PR database and submit patches."

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  1. Re:Bulk builds by MavEtJu · · Score: 4, Informative

    For your information, Mark Linimon has made a website which extracts information from the bento logs and the PR database to make a better overview on the error reporting.

    it's here

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  2. Re:Bulk builds by leitz · · Score: 3, Informative
    A "bulk build" is a fairly automated thing where NetBSD builds *all* packages in a sane order. For example, if package X needs package Y, it knows to go build Y before X. Pretty cool stuff, better than some dependency checking things I've seen.

    It isn't "automated" in that it starts itself, but once you manually start it it does all the work for you.

  3. Re:Bulk builds by jschauma · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can find some more details at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/binary. html. The nice thing is, they are quite configurable, so that you can run a bulk-build with xpkgwedge (to ensure that even X11 programs do not end up outside of /usr/pkg (or whatever your PREFIX is)) or with gcc-3 (if your OS or Port has not yet been switched to use gcc3 as the default system compiler) etc.

    The bulk builds are run regularly on different ports, and the resulting binary packages are then uploaded to the ftp sites.

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