Re: NetBSD 8.0 Release Candidate 1 available

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>]

Martin Husemann <martin%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
 |On behalf of the NetBSD project, it is my pleasure to announce the first
 |release candidate of NetBSD 8.0.
 ...
 |Binaries of NetBSD 8.0_RC1 are available for download via our Fastly
 |CDN:
 | https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0_RC1/
 |
 |(or from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0_RC1/, or one of
 |its mirrors)
 |
 |Those who prefer to build from source can either use the netbsd-8-0-RC1
 |tag or follow the netbsd-8 branch.
 |
 |Please help us out by testing 8.0_RC1.  We love any and all feedback.
 |Report problems through the usual channels (submit a PR or write to the
 |appropriate list).  More general feedback is welcome at
 |releng%NetBSD.org@localhost.  Your input will help us put the finishing touches on
 |what promises to be a great release!

. pkgin installation is not from /8.0_RC1/ but from /8.0_2018Q1/
  (or so).
. motd misses copyright 2018.
. The pkgin package catalog is truncated!?!

    #?0[steffen@nbsd8 steffen]$ pkgin avail|wc -l
        4999
    #?0[steffen@nbsd8 steffen]$ pkgin avail|tail -n2
    nettle-3.4           Cryptographic library
    newmail-1.0.1nb1     Program to check multiple local mailboxes for new mail

  Though i see 18718 packages in the directory!!  (In fact i had
  to download several hundreds of megabytes to get there at all,
  i wonder what the 200 MB installation ISO actually contains!)

+ Question: how can i install vim(1) via pkgin(1) if the catalog
  is truncated?  Help!!!
  I cannot install git(1), too, because of dependencies:

    #?127[steffen@nbsd8 steffen]$ less /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log
    ---Apr 25 18:15:06: installing libunistring-0.9.9...
    ---Apr 25 18:15:07: installing libidn2-2.0.4...
    ---Apr 25 18:15:07: installing curl-7.59.0...
    ---Apr 25 18:15:08: installing git-base-2.16.3...
    pkg_add: no pkg found for 'p5-Error>=0.17015', sorry.
    pkg_add: Can't install dependency p5-Error>=0.17015
    pkg_add: 1 package addition failed

. The OpenSSL is very old -- though i have seen fly by commit
  messages showing that NetBSD has switched to v1.1.x series?

    #?0[steffen@nbsd8 steffen]$ openssl version
    WARNING: can't open config file: /etc/openssl/openssl.cnf
    OpenSSL 1.0.2k  26 Jan 2017

  This is over a year old!

    #?0[steffen@essex openssl.git]$ git tag|grep 1_0_2|tail -n1
    OpenSSL_1_0_2o

  But ok, curl etc. is newest, i have no real idea of security
  relevance of OpenSSL updates since k, but then again

    #?0[steffen@essex openssl.git]$ git lo \
      OpenSSL_1_0_2k..OpenSSL_1_0_2o|wc -l
    294

Other than that is working just fine from shallow testing.
Thanks!

--steffen
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