[1960] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Athena packages suitable for pkgsrc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (matt)
Fri Jun 23 10:44:51 2000
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: matt <deberg@MIT.EDU>
Date: 23 Jun 2000 10:44:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: Richard Tibbetts's message of "Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:19:51 EDT"
Richard> So, I have been considering the plight of NetBSD-Athena. I
Richard> think that it is a losing proposition to try and be the
Richard> default i386-Athena, since tb-Athena seems to have that
Richard> niche locked up. However I think supporting users who
Richard> really want to use NetBSD with Athena services is a
Richard> worthwhile goal, especially if we can do it on multiple
Richard> architecture. To that end it seems that generating
Richard> pkgsrc-style packages for various Athena services,
Richard> comparable to how Layered Athena breaks Athena services
Richard> into multiple packages.
what is the "plight" of netbsd-athena? we've been lame about getting a
release out, and at this point i wonder if it's not worth just skipping
8.3 and doing 8.4, but i don't think it's ever been a goal to "beat out"
either SIPB or I/S linux-athena. regardless of the state of any
linux-athena port, i want to be using netbsd.
i believe netbsd-athena 8.3 for both i386 and sparc are close to being
ready to go, and now that i've finished my thesis i plan on putting in
the time this summer to make those happen. (or something 8.4 based, or
whatever.)
having said that, packages would be great. as bill mentioned yesterday,
the biggest issue is prob coming up w/ the source tarballs for each
package. there's a big document on the netbsd website about all the
ins-and-outs of creating a new package - that's a good place to start.
presumably if these packages exist SIPB could make binary versions of
them available for people, much like the layered linux-athena release.
matt
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