Re: NetBSD Sparc packages not available

Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:46:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> It seems https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc/ is 
>> empty.
>> Is it "normal"? Have Sparc packages dropped, or was it removed by 
>> mistake?
>>
>
>
>     I also tried recent NetBSD on SPARC and was surprised that very
>     little existed at all.
>
>     Could be that pkgsrc is the only way to go.

long thread - they weren't built and obsolete ones were removed per policy.

I compiled a quite good starter set and offered it - Mouse has put it 
public, maybe he can announce the URL and perhaps the package you need 
is there or at least many dependencies to build yours, saving build time.
All natively build, not emulated.

Riccardp