This mail is just in case someone is thinking on setting a venti server
or just install plan9port in NetBSD64. I know is a p9p matter, but I've
saw a lot of people on this list using p9p to serve venti and even fossil
for their Plan9 machines. If this is a bad behavior on the mailing list,
please let me know!
The torture begins...
install netbsd32_compat40.
Compile p9p in netbsd-4.0 i386 (needs perl), and move to the 64
machine, in the same path or change $PLAN9/lib/moveplan9.files.
I'll use /emul/netbsd32/usr/local/plan9port
cp i386's libX11.so.6.2 to /emul/netbsd32/lib and soft link to:
libX11.so.6
libX11.so
create /etc/ld.so.conf:
/lib
/usr/lib
/emul/netbsd32/lib
create ptys:
# cd /dev
# sh MAKEDEV opty
Edit .profile
export PLAN9=/emul/netbsd32/usr/local/plan9port
export PATH=$PATH:$PLAN9/bin
Edit _default in /etc/man.conf
_default
{/emul/netbsd32/usr/local/plan9port,/usr/{share,X11R7,X11R6,pkg,local}}/man/
PROBLEMS:
venti must use files:
venti/fmtarenas: can't open partition /dev/cgd2a: can't
determine size of partition /dev/cgd2a
Don't use tcp!*!venti, errors about 0.0.0.0... best use
tcp!your_ip!venti. The same for http.
Problems with rc, for example executing scripts like man:
$ man venti
rc (/emul/netbsd32/usr/local/plan9port/bin/rc): null list in
concatenation
This is a problem of NetBSD's compatibility mode. Works fine in i386
4.0.
Don't use shells/rc !!, from http://tobold.org/article/rc 's man page:
INCOMPATIBILITIES
The Tenth Edition rc does not have the else keyword. Instead,
if is
optionally followed by an if not clause which is executed if the pre-
ceding if test does not succeed.
[...]
For . file, the Tenth Edition rc searches $path for file. This rc
does not, since it is not considered useful.
[...]
Install 9base's rc:
$ git clone git://git.suckless.org/9base
$ cd 9base; make
$ mkdir $PLAN9/etc
$ cp rc/rc $PLAN9/bin; cp rc/rcmain $PLAN9/etc
So the equation is something like:
Venti + NetBSD64 = netbsd32_compat40 + p9p from i386 4.0 + 9base's rc
I hope in the future I can add '= Plan9' to this mess.
trebol.
