I goofed and didn't send this to the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, Greg Troxel wrote:
A terminology nit: "userland" in BSD refers to user-space components of the base system, separate from packages.
Ah...well taken and duly noted. I stand corrected.
...most people who work on pkgsrc keep things up to date...
This is something I need to keep in mind. I know that, as a rule, if one wants help with some software project or other the folks developing it certainly don't want to answer questions about old versions of the thing. I take your suggestion to mean that I ought to view pkgsrc from a similar perspective.
You should not need to rm -rf and checkout fresh; cvs update should work fine (and does for me).
Sometimes pure superstition takes over my decision-making. <g>
What I do on a number of machines is to keep my pkgsrc tree at the most recent quarterly release. Then, as the freeze approaches, I start rebuilding everything (via pkg_rolling-replace), and keep doing that, because really my main point is to help make the quarterly branch as high-quality as possible.
Ah. That is the best summation of how to administer a NetBSD machine I have ever come across. At some point (can't do it now) I will put that plan into action.
Also, I use ccache, which greatly eases rebuilding.
I just read the DESCR file for that; it certainly seems like something my olde machine could benefit from.
I am too new to be a founder :-)
Oops. <g>
I don't really see any options other than patience or expending CPU time.
Sage words indeed! Thanks, -- Bob Bernstein
