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

"Mike M. Volokhov" <[email protected]> writes:

> 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?

No, it isn't irrelevant. NetBSD 6.0 release contains critical bug that
precludes building of relevant software. Working around a bug just
to support _now_obsolete_ version of OS is stupid. Packaging framework
has nothing to do with it, it is the software that doesn't get built.
If we want to know how packaging framework behaves, we should run
regression tests instead.

Publishing reports for obsolete version of OS that nobody should be
using is pointless. It tells that packages that may be broken due
to that bug are indeed broken. So what? It is more interesting if they
are broken on systems that have those known bugs corrected.

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