Re: pkgin missing on repo sparc64

Thanks a lot for the blade 100/150 fix, hope it makes it to the official
iso.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 10:01 PM Daniel Watson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry to Hijack, thanks for that John, I've been wondering that same thing
> myself, NetBSD is amazing on Sparc64, it's actually a daily for me, I run
> it on a U10, a U60 and a Blade1000, though, it'd be amazing if someone
> could pick up the driver support for the XVR-1000 card, I have one for my
> Blade 1000 that I can't use with NetBSD but just seriously lack the skills
> to do anything about it, though I am learning C at present, but, rushing in
> to making a driver as a first big project might be a little ambitious!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Dan
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 17:31, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > is it intentional that pkgin is missing on the sparc64 repositories?
>> > I can compile and use it from pkgsrc and it connects successfully to
>> >
>> > https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/9.0/All
>> >
>> > where it is missing and throwing this error during NetBSD installation.
>>
>> NetBSD's FTP servers are slated for upgrades soon, but this has been
>> delayed by the pandemic. This means we don't have space for all of the
>> pkgsrc binaries we're making. For now, use:
>>
>> https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/9.0_2020Q1/All/
>>
>> They're built by me, AKA [email protected], so they're safe :)
>>
>> John
>>
>