Re: Building Linux packages on NetBSD

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:50:09AM +0000, nia wrote:
> I don't recommend using pkgsrc on Linux without PREFER_PKGSRC, tbh.
> That's asking for trouble (see posts on this list from Linux users...)
> Make sure everything pkgsrc expects is installed (compilers, flex, etc).
> I wouldn't recommend mixing up packages from different distributions,
> and keep the set of installed Linux packages to a minimum.

Thanks for both the replies.

Instead of using a different distro I am using live cd of the target host
(lubuntu) with a local qcow2 image mounted for pkg and pkgsrc. So far no
problems and the speed seems good.

I am bootstrapping with PREFER_PKGSRC.

Mayuresh