Re: Which pkgsrc for NetBSD-3.1

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:55:06PM +0000, John Murphy wrote:
>> Thanks for the replies. It grumbled a bit about different versions like:
>> 
>> pkg_add: Warning: package
>> `ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/i386/All/kde-3.5.3.tgz'
>
>This is probably quite old. You should try
>ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/pkgsrc-2006Q3/NetBSD-3.0/i386/All/

Circa June 2005 I think. Kinda wish I had, but I'm too far down the binary
package road to back up and start again. I'll know for next time.

>> was built for a different version of the OS:
>> pkg_add: NetBSD/i386 3.0 (pkg) vs. NetBSD/i386 3.1 (this host)
>> 
>> But then failed to find some packages, which I presume is more serious:
>> 
>> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'qt3-libs-3.3.6nb1', sorry.
>> pkg_add: 1 package addition failed
>> pkg_add: autoload of dependency `qt3-libs>=3.3.6nb1' failed!
>> pkg_add: no pkg found for 'qt3-libs>=3.3.6nb1', sorry.
>
>It has been moved to
>ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/i386/vulnerable/
>because of a security issue. But as I said you should probably use
>pkgsrc-2006Q3 instead.

Wow! Thanks for pointing me to that. I don't really care about its v13s.

-- 
John.