> > On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 05:16:34AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > My big concern with the branch is the entropy bug, where building > > many packages from pkgsrc is stopped.
> Yes, you are kinda right: > https://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/netbsd-10/ > "Waiting for Randot" as open point, although you may notice that all other > entropy related subpoints have been dealt with. > But again: this is not a bug, but a broken system setup - and nowadays > it is pretty hard to get into that state on new installations. The installer > will push you very hard to fix the setup before completing installation. > Various improvements in this area have happened lately, and once your > system setup is fixed (one time, and savely shutdown or rebooted w/o > crash after that fix) everything will just work. > But most importantly in this context: this is nothing that can delay > the branch itself (only the release). The one sub item that altered > libc ABI (addition of getentropy(3)) has happened. > Martin I suppose now the branch is just a few days away, and running "cvs up -dP -A" will just go the new HEAD? A lot must have happened with NetBSD-current since the time of 9.99.82, a little more than one year ago. I will want to try on amd64 and i386. Tom