Re: Adding Bitrig support

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 07:11:17PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> * On 2015-04-05 at 17:35 BST, rodent%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> 
> > On Friday, i discovered Bitrig, which is a fork of OpenBSD. It has clang as
> > the base compiler package, supports amd64 (with arm{7,8} support in the
> > works), and has perhaps one GNU tool in base. They haven't decided on a
> > package system yet and are using OpenBSD's ports in the interim.
> > 
> > They have a friendly and helpful IRC channel on OFTC. Some were interested in
> > entertaining the idea of running pkgsrc on Bitrig. Since quite a lot of
> > packages in pkgsrc work on OpenBSD, it seemed trivial to make pkgsrc work on
> > Bitrig. Here's the results of yesterday's work:
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/rodent/bitrig.tar.gz
> > 
> > The archive contains:  1) a CVS diff of the affected files in one mega
> > patch file; 2) the affect files; 3) the output of bootstrapping pkgsrc on
> > Bitrig. Could we get some feedback on these patches and maybe an approval for
> > their integration? I'd like confirmation if this requires bumping the package
> > versions of bmake, libnbcompat, bootstrap-mk-files, and pkg_install.
> 
> Initially the diff looks ok, though there are a bunch of spaces->tabs
> needed on quick glance.
> 
> I'd love to see this integrated once joerg@ as maintainer has ok'd.
> Now is a great time to get it in so we can work on making pkgsrc
> support Bitrig well for our 2015Q2 release, and hopefully get some new
> contributors on board!

Ping me about it after April 12, please.

Joerg