Subject: Re: pkgsrc -- cool!
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/09/1999 13:28:30
Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bob Nestor wrote:
>
> > Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >There aren't any 1.4 binary packages for mac68k on the netbsd ftp
> > >site. I'd like to offer the perl packages I built. However, although
> > >the docs give a detailed set of instructions on creating packages from
> > >scratch, they're a little sketchy when it comes to submission of
> > >binaries built this way (sect 2.3.3 of "Packages.txt" makes a cross
> > >reference to another section containing a footnote to "add more info
> > >here".
> >
> > I built about 576 packages for 1.4 on the m68k platform and put them on
> > CDs last month. Copies were sent to both the East and West Coast to
> > folks who have access to copy thme up to the NetBSD Server. Maybe they
> > got lost in the mail? Or someone got tied up on other things?
>
> Your CD arrived today, and is sitting in my macppc.
>
> I've never uploaded packages before, so I'm not sure how/where to put
> them. ftp.netbsd.org obviously but....
assuming that they are in fact 1.4 m68k packages, here:
/ftp/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4/m68k
i'm in the process of making the per-arch links, but the main directory is
there now...just make sure there aren't any non-exportable/restricted
packages in there like ssh or pgp(?).
later.
colin