would anybody use binary packages for NetBSD/i386 10?

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

In contemplating bulk builds and resources, I wonder if there are still
people who:

  are running NetBSD/i386 (as opposed to amd64)

  are using the binary packges from quarterly branches on ftp.netbsd.org

  are running NetBSD 10 already, or who intend to move to it soon or
  after release

If you have a system that meets the above, please either reply here (the
first few people :-) or just answer me privately.  (I'd also be
interested in which category below your use is.)

Basically, I would think about not doing bulk builds if very few want
them, relative to the effort/resources required to create them.


My guess is that at this point, i386 use is limited to

  a) old embedded-type systems (soekris)
  b) systems that are running i386 because they were first installed many
     years ago and haven't been converted to amd64 for no good reason or
     for some odd special case odd reason
  c) build systems to support category a/b systems, for testing or
     building private binary package sets
  d) retrocomputing

and that the amount of use with ftp.n.o binary packages is extremely
small.

As a personal example -- and I am somewhat trailing edge -- I know of
two NetBSD/i386 systems in category b (one each no good reason and one
special case odd reason), and 2 in category c.  I have one system that
would be category a, replaced several years ago and powered off because
it was underpowered, that I might or might not ever power up again, and
if I did I wouldn't use ftp.n.o packages on it.