Re: Package binaries for NetBSD 7.2

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

Well, I am aware of all these options to solve the immediate problem,
should I need it; I did it to find out how it would have panned out
for someone perhaps coming from a different background and wanting to
try the release. For insance, one gets the option to add binary
packages installation during normal sysinst, which obviously doesn't
work for 7.2 as of now. My point was that it would be desireable to
make some sort of coordination between operating system announces and
the corresponding pkg bulk builds. I realise this is not as easy as it
sounds, counting the number of supported architectures and platforms,
but perhaps something could be done for the major ones. Again, I
understand it is a matter of available resources and priorities and
also that the average NetBSD user is generally able to sort out
problems like this by himself, so it is not that big of a deal.
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 at 20:34, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 7:37 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > > I can't answer to any specific plans on this front...  It's
> > > conceivable that the bulk builds will switch to 7.2 at some
> > > point.
> >
> > It's unfortunate that this happened; generally the plan for release
> > branches is not to have ABI changes.  But sometimes that's really
> > difficult to avoid depending on how upstream packages behave.  One
> > netbsd-7 system i have has newer libraries from about May, and I didn't
> > notice this issue.
>
> How about switching the -7 builders to 7.2 after 2018Q3 comes out?
>
> --
> Benny



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