On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Mike Pumford wrote:

> > 	I'd expect it would only be manually installed once or twice per
> > 	OS release (1.5, 1.5.1 etc). What may happen more often would be
> > 	updating the set of installed packages. On a 15-20GB disk you can
> > 	afford to have a _lot_ of packages installed :)
> >
> Yes but at least it would guarantee that the release install kernels
> work. I know that they pretty much do for 1.5 (apart from some odd SCSI
> crashes) but the 1.4 install kernels were obviously untested as they
> did not even have the ramdisk image embedded in them. If I get home at
> a reasonable hour I'm going to see if I can finish of the SHARKINST
> terminal type hack and at least make a first stab at the SCSI crashes.

	1.4 was not a good time for NetBSD/arm32. 1.5 should be a lot
	better.

> I think the effort that people put in to having a NetBSD presence at a
> RISC OS show really help get the install kernels some exposure to real
> testing. It would guarantee a lot of pre built packages then.
>
	I have prebuilt packages for kde-1.1.2, enlightenment, xemacs,
	samba, python, gmc, postgresql, xmame, vnc, xlockmore and a
	bunch of other fun all compiled up under 1.5. I'm trying to
	fix some other packages and then I'll upload them all (and
	have them available at the show).

	If there are any other packages people would like, let me know.

> > 	We should try to setup something for the Dec2 show, to see what
> > 	people think.
> >
> Yes. I'm still looking at transport arrangements for that but I do hope
> to get there. Presumably 1.5 release CD's with packages can be done for
> that show.

	Definitely. From where are you coming - maybe you can hitch a lift
	from someone else? :)

                David/absolute
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