Re: package updates for 10.0

[Jason Bacon <jtocino%gmx.com@localhost>]

On 7/3/23 12:05, David Brownlee wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2023 at 12:24, nia <nia%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 01:50:55AM +0000, Bruno Melo wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Why amd64 packages for the last 2 pkgsrc releases were not generated for 10.0 branch? I can find for 8 and 9, but 10.0 last update was in Dec-2022.
> > >
> > > Here it is http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64/
> >
> > I did not build them. I am waiting for OpenSSL 3 to be pulled up to
> > 10, because it isn't useful building packages if the ABI is going
> > to immediately break.
>
> Ah, but that pullup is due on a NetBSD "immediately" :-p
>
>   It's going to be a flag day for anyone running netbsd-10, but as we
> are still making older netbsd-10 binary packages which people are
> using, it makes some sense to build updated ones...
>
> It's probably one of those cases where as soon as you give in and
> actually make packages available for netbsd-10, openssl3 will finally
> be enabled in netbsd-10, but then that will be good, as we'll have
> openssl3 in netbsd-10 :)
>
> David

As soon as there's a new set of current packages for either 9.3 or 10, I
will be able to fully test desktop-installer the way it's meant to work,
i.e.

# pkgin install desktop-installer
# desktop-installer

At present, getting it up and running requires some contortions:

https://github.com/outpaddling/desktop-installer/

If you could let us know when the new package builds happen, I'll get on
this ASAP and work out the kinks, so setting up NetBSD desktop systems
will become much easier.