Re: pkgin missing on repo sparc64

[Daniel Watson <is0explore%gmail.com@localhost>]

Sorry to Hijack, thanks for that John, I've been wondering that same thing myself, NetBSD is amazing on Sparc64, it's actually a daily for me, I run it on a U10, a U60 and a Blade1000, though, it'd be amazing if someone could pick up the driver support for the XVR-1000 card, I have one for my Blade 1000 that I can't use with NetBSD but just seriously lack the skills to do anything about it, though I am learning C at present, but, rushing in to making a driver as a first big project might be a little ambitious!

Best Regards,

Dan

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 17:31, John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> wrote:

Hi,

> is it intentional that pkgin is missing on the sparc64 repositories?
> I can compile and use it from pkgsrc and it connects successfully to
>
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/9.0/All
>
> where it is missing and throwing this error during NetBSD installation.

NetBSD's FTP servers are slated for upgrades soon, but this has been
delayed by the pandemic. This means we don't have space for all of the
pkgsrc binaries we're making. For now, use:

https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/9.0_2020Q1/All/

They're built by me, AKA jklos%NetBSD.org@localhost, so they're safe :)

John