Re: m17n-lib unpleasantness (fwd)

[Bob Bernstein <poobah%ruptured-duck.com@localhost>]

I goofed and didn't send this to the list.

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On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:

> A terminology nit: "userland" in BSD refers to user-space 
> components of the base system, separate from packages.

Ah...well taken and duly noted. I stand corrected.

> ...most people who work on pkgsrc keep things up to date...

This is something I need to keep in mind. I know that, as a rule, 
if one wants help with some software project or other the folks 
developing it certainly don't want to answer questions about old 
versions of the thing. I take your suggestion to mean that I ought 
to view pkgsrc from a similar perspective.

> You should not need to rm -rf and checkout fresh; cvs update 
> should work fine (and does for me).

Sometimes pure superstition takes over my decision-making. <g>

> What I do on a number of machines is to keep my pkgsrc tree at 
> the most recent quarterly release.  Then, as the freeze 
> approaches, I start rebuilding everything (via 
> pkg_rolling-replace), and keep doing that, because really my 
> main point is to help make the quarterly branch as high-quality 
> as possible.

Ah. That is the best summation of how to administer a NetBSD 
machine I have ever come across. At some point (can't do it now) I 
will put that plan into action.

> Also, I use ccache, which greatly eases rebuilding.

I just read the DESCR file for that; it certainly seems like 
something my olde machine could benefit from.

> I am too new to be a founder :-)

Oops. <g>

> I don't really see any options other than patience or expending 
> CPU time.

Sage words indeed!

Thanks,

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Bob Bernstein