Re: ftp package site broken (7.1.1, 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2)

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

On 05.11.2020 04:41, Ladar Levison wrote:
> Looks like the paths for packages have been broken. Specifically:
>
> https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.1.1

Hi Ladar,

Thanks for the notice.  NetBSD 7 is not supported anymore, the packages
for it are gone from ftp.netbsd.org.  You can still find them here:

https://archive.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc-archive/packages/NetBSD/amd64/7.1.1/

> https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.0
> https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.1
> https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.2

This was a broken symlink that still pointed to 2020Q1, which didn't
exist there anymore.  I manually updated it to point to 2020Q3.  I think
there is also an automatic mechanism for this, but I don't remember
exactly where that code is.

> I thought it might simply be a symlinking issue, but pointing the
> machine at:
>
> https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.0_2020Q3/
>
> Yielded warnings during install:
>
> + export
> 'PATH=/sbin/:/bin/:/usr/sbin/:/usr/bin/:/usr/pkg/bin/:/usr/pkg/sbin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/local/bin'
> + export
> 'PKG_PATH=http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/8.0_2020Q3/All'
> + pkg_add vim curl wget sudo bash pkgin slocate bash-completion
> pkg_add: Warning: package `vim-8.2.1709' was built for a platform:
> pkg_add: NetBSD/x86_64 8.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/x86_64 8.2 (this host)

8.2 is a symlink to 8.0, that's why you get this warning.  The warning
itself is misleading since packages built for 8.0 should work flawlessly
on 8.2.  We had a discussion recently about this but didn't take any
action.  You can just ignore them for now.

Roland