NetBSD Packages Collection No Longer Frozen

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday December 4, 2003 @06:04PM from the might-still-be-soggy dept.

jschauma writes "As many users will probably have noticed by the increase in recent pkgsrc commits, the NetBSD Packages Collection freeze is now officially over. Starting October 6th, 2003 and lasting almost two months, the NetBSD Packages team concentrated upon stabilizing the over 4,000 software packages and the pkgsrc infrastructure to prepare for a stable pkgsrc branch. During that time, the number of broken packages during a i386 bulk build was brought down to a mere 15, and a large number of PRs was closed. A new branch with the tag ``pkgsrc-2003Q4'' was created, allowing our users to maintain a highly stabilized third-party software package managment environment, as only pullups of significant importance (such as security issues) are applied to this branch."

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The best thing... by Fulkkari · 2003-12-04 19:20 · Score: 4, Insightful

The best thing about this is propably that new stabilized branch. In the past I've used almost everytime the newest sources available to keep up with all the patches, but if this new branch has only the important patches applied to it, it's definetely going to be the one I'm using. If this is going to be updated in the future too, the name of the new branch (pkgsrc-2003Q4) wasn't the best one though.

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Re:Yay! you can compile for... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-06 04:12 · Score: 1, Insightful

"Obscure embedded platforms like v850, cris, h8300, etc.
would make me nervous to use in a large production."

Huh? There are more products shipped with any one
of these running Linux then the entire installed base of
NetBSD (no, literally). Choose an ARM (nommu) target
and there are millions of units a month shipped.

Widely developed has nothing to do with production ready.
But you are correct, this has nothing to do with pkgsrc.

D. Jeff Dionne