Re: NetBSD builds of DEs from pkgsrc (was Re: Anyone need a ThinkPad T495{,s}?)

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

* On 2023-06-25 at 15:48 BST, Jason Bacon wrote:

> On 6/25/23 09:42, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > * On 2023-06-25 at 15:04 BST, Jason Bacon wrote:
> >
> > > https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-netbsd/ states "Packages are built
> > > on the latest development version of NetBSD/amd64 (currently 9.99.98)
> > > from pkgsrc trunk and updated every few days.", so I assumed I had the
> > > latest.  Maybe there's an issue blocking builds, or I'm just
> > > misunderstanding the statement.
> >
> > No, sorry, that's on me to update it to the current state of reality.
> > Despite running in a VM with far more resources than the daily Linux
> > pkgsrc-el7 builds (16 CPUs 64GB RAM vs 8CPU/16GB), the NetBSD 
> > 10.0_BETA one is unable to complete a full build without crashing 
> > and so I have to restart it manually every time, and I just haven't 
> > gotten around to doing that recently.  It also takes about 4x 
> > longer.
> >
> > I've kicked off another one now, we'll see how far it gets.
>
> I see, thanks for your efforts.  Do you mean the VM is crashing, or 
> just the bulk build?

It's usually an even split between the host just becoming unresponsive 
and requiring a forced reboot, or the Java Jenkins client crashing which 
requires restarting the bulk build manually.

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