Re: Pkgsrc issue

[Don Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost>]

Sounds like prudent and wise choices/rules.

Mr Nestor has given me a good path for my needs. I’m wondering if I can apply any of my resources to TNF efforts. I was thinking of setting up a machine here, but I might do better by simply giving a machine to TNF. (The NetBSD Foundation?)

NetBSD has been good to me. I’d like to return the favor.

-dgl-

> On Apr 27, 2024, at 2:43 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Don Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost> writes:
> 
>> I have extra static IPs, and several PPC Mac mini machines. I wonder
>> how hard it would be for me to set one up with enough disk space to do
>> bulk builds. Would that even be helpful? I imagine that to be useful,
>> a machine would have to have some administrative massaging to set up
>> users/ssh/ftp/etc.
> 
> You building our own packages is useful for you.  You are welcome to
> make them available, and we list sets that are long-term maintained in
> SEE_ALSO.  We have a rule that only packages built on machines
> controlled by TNF members are posted on ftp.netbsd.org.
> 
>> I have not done the pkgsrc bootstrap for quite a while, and don’t know
>> how much disk space I would need. Fortunately, NetBSD 8.2 on PPC seem
>> to be very stable, so running for a couple of weeks on a build should
>> be fine.
> 
> I meant that if you need a small subset of packages, then building those
> yourself is reasonable.  If you try to build the entire set, it's
> going to take a very long time.   For example, I build what I need for
> earmv7hf-el myself, but my setup would take years to build the full set,
> and it doens't have enough memory.