> So far I have installed NetBSD 1.6 onto the sparc, downloaded the dpkg > source from CVS. I need to sort out perl as I don't appear to have > dumper.pm installed. So I haven't even created the configuration file
Dumper.pm comes with NetBSD's perl package (like with perl-5.6.1nb7 it is at /usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-netbsd/Data/Dumper.pm. > yet. I would like to install it from the NetBSD packages but I haven't > spent time working that out properly. I've ran 'sup' but that's about > it. apt is so nice ;) I agree. apt does make it easy. I am also working on an easy-to-update system using NetBSD packages too. Basically, all that is needed is a retrievable packages list that contains the dependencies of all available packages via a download site. Then a wrapper around pkg_add to use it -- so it will behave like up2date or apt-get. Jeremy C. Reed p.s. I am helping make a Linux distro using NetBSD pkgsrc. We have over 20 new pkgsrc packages, like Linux kernel, pppd, modutils, shadow, man-db, vixie-cron, et cetera. If anyone wants to help, let me know.
