Re: Insights from successful, yet painful, install attempt.

On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 at 03:00, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm happy to take requests, because I have a couple of '040 machines that
> aren't yet running bulk builds directly.

slock, i3lock, i3status, dmenu, scrot, maim, screenfetch, neofetch,
ufetch, pfetch, weechat, irssi, mutt, wget, wget2, xpdf, zathura,
8086tiny

Once gtk is working: hexchat, netsurf, filezilla

> Both are present, and should have all of the packages currently uploaded:
>
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  zia      429640 Oct 11 14:38 pkg_summary.bz2
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root  zia      651726 Oct 11 14:38 pkg_summary.gz
>

Should indeed. But no dice. I do not know the reason.

amiga# cat /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf
(...)
http://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0_2021Q3/All/
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$arch/9.0/All

amiga#  pkgin up
processing remote summary
(http://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0_2021Q3/All/)...
database for http://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0_2021Q3/All/
is up-to-date
processing remote summary
(https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0/All)...
database for https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/m68k/9.0/All
is up-to-date

amiga# pkgin se i3
No results found for i3
amiga# pkgin se icewm
No results found for icewm

Not sure what's going on. As per repositories.conf help, all repos are
used and the repos listed first have priority in the event of dups.

> I can't say I know offhand how to tell pkgin to prefer one over the other.

I also did some fruitless research.

> I see someone who likes older machines has also brought this up:
>
> https://github.com/NetBSDfr/pkgin/issues/112
>
> However, it'd be more appropriately discussed on tech-pkg@. I'll send
> something there.

Meantime, getting rid of the bz2 would make pkgin use the gz. It's
probably best for m68k, even the faster ones.

>
> > Cool stuff, but nono is m88k, which is a different beast (Motorola's
> > attempt at RISC).
>
> It does both! It runs NetBSD/luna68k as well as OpenBSD/luna88k.
>
> John