Re: Rust with 9 Beta

[Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thank you. I main intention is to use netbsd-9 as a workstation for my development. Helping the NetBSD project along the way is also important to me, albeit my inexperience with NetBSD may cause a little angst for the readers of this mailing list; but that is a temporary pain point.

To recap:
Install from scratch
Pull in the current pkgsrc (it's the one I'm interested)
Build packages from pkgsrc, report any issues to the appropriate list
Wait for a 9.x repo before using pkgin (I could hold my breath too. Spent 6 years on submarines where we spent a lot of time under water, so holding my breath is not a problem. ( )

On 8/1/19, 9:41 AM, "Greg Troxel" <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

    Ron Georgia <netverbs%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
    
    > Thanks for the response. The patience of this forum is outstanding and I appreciate it.
    > Greg, thank you for your candor. I did mix the softlink solution and
    > pulling in the expected lib from the 8.1 set. I suppose I could
    > reinstall and just build from source or can I simply grab the set from
    > BETA and unpack them (except etc and xetc).
    
    I would first get rid of all your lib symlinks.  Then I'd unpack a build
    of 8 someplace else on your disk, and just cp -p older shlibs as you
    need them.
    
    There might be a netbsd8-compat or such package in pkgsrc that basically
    does this, but I basically always upgrade so don't run into this myself.
    
    > Question: which pkgsrc would be best to pull in, stable or current?
    
    It depends on what you are trying to do.  You are obviously either
    wanting to test netbsd-9, or to use netbsd-9 because it works better
    than netbsd-8.  The question then becomes whether you want to help fix
    pkgsrc head for netbsd-9 so 2019Q3 will be better, help fix 2019Q2
    branch for netbsd-9 (but we don't provide builds), or actually use the
    machine.
    
    Keep in mind that all your packages must be from the same sources
    (2019Q2 or pkgsrc current) and built on the same base OS (netbsd-8 or
    netbsd-9).  Mixing either is going to be trouble, and people are just
    going to tell you not to mix, rather than helping you sort out the mess
    mixing causes.