Re: pkgsrc vs. binary packages

[Aleksey Cheusov <cheusov%tut.by@localhost>]

> Why can I not install a basic 5.1 NetBSD system and install 5.1
> packages from the main mirror?

Try to use pkgtools/nih. It is a package manager for pkgsrc
that works with binary packages.
When time allows I'll add build capabilities to it.

If you want to build everything in a safe way and then install binaries,
you can try pkgtools/distbb and the following script.
It runs partial bulk build with installed packages.
You can also run distbb -I /var/pkg/db for the same purpose.

Usually I run like
   make_pkg
or
   make_pkg www/firefox www/midori

~/bin/make_pkgs:
#!/bin/sh

set -e

tmpfn=`mktemp /tmp/make_pkgs.XXXXXX`
if test -z "$tmpfn"; then
    exit 1
fi

if test $# -eq 0; then
    pkg_info -u -QPKGPATH > "$tmpfn"
    ~/pkg_distbb/bin/distbb -D -f "$tmpfn" -X summary -X checksum "$@"
else
    ~/pkg_distbb/bin/distbb -p "$*"
fi