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NetBSD Packages Collection No Longer Frozen

Posted by CowboyNeal on 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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  1. Re:Yay! you can compile for... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is it just me or does the linux kernel support more CPU ISAs than netbsd? Here is my count.

    NetBSD (12):
    alpha
    arm
    i386
    m68k
    ns32k
    parisc
    ppc
    superh
    sparc
    sparc64
    vax
    x86-64

    Linux (17):
    alpha
    arm
    cris
    h8300
    i386
    ia64
    m68k
    mips
    parisc
    ppc
    ppc64
    s390
    superh
    sparc
    spa rc64
    v850
    x86-64