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I got a response pretty quickly on how to go about working with packages. 
I've asked for some more detailed info on building and what to make 
available, but this is a good start! 

Alex Kirk 


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Alex Kirk <alex@schnarff.com> wrote: 

> I'm on the Port-Dreamcast list, having run my DC as a Mixmaster
> Anonymous Remailer under NetBSD for a few months now. It was suggested
> yesterday that the reason there's no /pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/dreamcast
> directory on ftp.netbsd.org and its mirrors is because no one's compiled
> and uploaded packages for that architecture. Well, three of us so far
> have agreed we'd be happy to sit around and compile/upload
> packages...but none of us have any kind of permissions to upload
> completed packages (and to be honest, after having a couple of packages
> build, I'm not sure *what* I'd be uploading).

Hello Alex, 

First of all, thanks for your offer to compile binary packages for the
dreamcast port.  We'd certainly appreciate your efforts.  When compiling
packages that would lateron be uploaded to ftp.netbsd.org, there are a
few things to keep in mind.  These are generic to all ports and may or
may not apply to the dreamcast port in particular (I, personally, don't
have any experience with this port): 

Packages for 1.6 should be compiled on a 1.6 system.  That means, it should
be the stable release;  if you are using a branch or -current, you could
build the packages in a 1.6 sandbox.  Similarly for 1.5. 

When building packages that require X, please make sure that the system
uses the default X that comes with NetBSD.  That is, if the port per
default uses XF3.x, then the packages should be compiled against XF3.x
 -- again, if that is not the currently installed system, a sandboxed
environment will do. 

When creating a binary package, please remember to also create binary
packages for all dependencies of that package! 


So far the generic instructions.  Now, for your situation what I would
recommend: 

If you wish to upload binary packages but do not have write access to
ftp.netbsd.org, create the packages and make them available online via
HTTP or FTP.  Then use send-pr (or our online form at
http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/send-pr.html) to inform the packages team of
the existence of the binary package. 

The packages will be uploaded to
  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/\
   `uname -r | sed 's@\.\([0-9]*\)[\._].*@\.\1@'`/`uname -p`
(as per /usr/pkgsrc/Packages.txt).  Therefor, it would be good if you
could include this information on the PR -- I assume in your case this
would be '1.6/dreamcast'. 


> Can someone official mail us over at the list to let us know how we
> should be doing this? Not only would it be nice to get packages for
> Dreamcast on the basis of that whole "works on any platform" thing, but
> it'd be a shame to waste all of the goodwill going on that mailing list
> right now.

Oh, yes, I agree completely.  Hopefully this mail will help you get this
manpower to work.  Feel free to forward this message to the dreamcast
mailing-list if you see fit.  If you have any other questions regarding
the Packages Collection in general or the building of binary packages,
please refer to /usr/pkgsrc/Packages.txt and don't hesitate to post to
the tech-pkg@netbsd.org mailing list. 

Thank you for your support of NetBSD, and I'm looking forward to seeing
binary packages for the dreamcast port! 

 -Jan 

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