Re: Binary packages for HPCARM/NetBSD 3.0?

Hi Mark,

Mark Cyzyk schrieb:
>
> All,
>
> (I've finally gotten NetBSD 3.0 up and running on my Jornada 720, with 
> the help of Jason Mitchell's very useful jinstall.gz file....)
>
> Compiling software (using swap space on an NFS mount) is turning out 
> to be a nightmare.  One package depends on another package which in 
> turn depends on another which is itself dependent on a package which 
> ultimately fails the build process, breaking the chain all the way 
> back up.  (In my case, I can't for the life of me get Perl5 to 
> compile...)
>
> I am noticing that there are A LOT of precompiled packages for NetBSD 
> 1.6 on HPCARM up on the NetBSD ftp site.  Does anyone know if/where 
> these same packages might exist, but compiled for NetBSD 3.0?   If 
> there were an archive somewhere of all this then we could just 
> 'pkg_add' and all would be well.
>
I´m currently building packages for NetBSD 3.0 with pkgsrc current from 
04th of june 2006.
Unfortunately I do not have any FTP space where I could load them up...
Is it possible to give packages to 
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/3.0/  ?

> Also, has anyone noticed that you can't really reboot from within 
> HPCARM for NetBSD 3.0?  It boots back out to WinCE, and I don't know 
> about you but even then I have to take the battery out and put it back 
> in to reset the monitor to acceptable levels of brightness/contrast.  
> Then it's back to hpcboot.exe, etc. etc.  
I have the same problem and there is no way to avoid it.
> Oh, also, I can't seem to contact the 'apm' deamon on my system.  But 
> I'm betting that this was something that just wasn't toggled on when 
> the kernel I'm using was compiled?
>
> Mark Cyzyk
> [email protected]
>
Bye,
Kim Moritz Nolde