Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd

>> Eh.  This is true only when you heatseek NetBSD itself; unlike
>> NetBSD, pkgsrc does not, as far as I could[%] tell, keep old
>> versions around.
> That's not really true, but I can see why you have that impression.

> pkgsrc the bits remain in the VCS.

Oh, good to hear!  The impression I had formed was that once a NetBSD
version was old enough (something like two or three major versions),
things like the patches necessary to adapt something to that version
were *gone*.  I must have just not dug deep enough.

> You can try to build pkgsrc-HEAD or a recent branch on any system you
> like.  Programs whose upstreams have old-fashioned good judgement and
> don't require C++23 to print hello world are likely to build ok.

All three of them, yeah. :-/

The major benefit of pkgsrc, from my perspective, was that it held
patchsets that someone else had already worked out to make programs
build on various NetBSD versions.  While they likely won't work out of
the box on mine, they are likely to be much closer to working than
unpatched code.

But, as I said, I'd formed the impression that that stuff was thrown
away once a NetBSD version was old enough.  Good to be corrected!

> You're conflating "works from pkgsrc-HEAD" and "works from the
> version of pkgsrc that is contemporaneous with the end of NetBSD N".

Actually, no...

> Source-wise, nothing is removed.

...*this* is where I went wrong.  I thought everything was thrown away
once the underlying OS was old enough (where, of course, "old enough"
varies).

I will have to find the round tuits (and work machine, probably) to
investigate pkgsrc more, since I clearly missed things when I was
looking Back Then.

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