Re: pkgsrc NetBSD 6.0/x86_64 2013-06-11 00:30

15 Jun 2013, 22:03, Aleksej Saushev wrote:

> Krister Walfridsson <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2013, Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>> 
>>> I doubt that posting build results for development packages on legacy platform
>>> is useful to anyone. Is it possible to convert to 6.1 at least?
>> 
>> I am planning to upgrade to 6.1 soon.
>> 
>> But it is wrong to call 6.0 a "legacy platform" -- 6.0.2 is just
>> released, and even 5.2 is still a supported platform for pkgsrc.
> 
> Whatever you call it (even 6.0.1 release has made it obsolete),
> 6.0 release is plain broken for work related to number crunching
> whether we like it or not.

>From numbering perspective it's better to keep packages for elder
platform rather decent system, simply because of backward compatibility.
However, for bulk builds of *the* pkgsrc it should be irrelevant -
the pkgsrc poses itself as really multiplatfrom packaging framework,
isn't it?

--
Cheers,
Mishka.
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