On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 10:56:19AM -0600, Roy Bixler wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:40:46AM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > installing osabi-NetBSD-7.0... > > The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 > > pkg_install warnings: 0, errors: 1 > > --- > > > > One has to go through pkgsrc again, which defeats the purpose... > > I've had problems with that package too and I've gotten used to going > through pkgsrc to solve it. If it's any consolation, this takes very > little time to build (certainly nothing like qt4-libs or firefox!) > Besides, I think that not every package is available as a binary and > then it's also necessary to build from source.
I replied privately and Chavdar indicated that the following advice, mentioned in a recent thread on OSABI by Patrick Welche, works for him: Add CHECK_OSABI=no to /etc/pkg_install.conf It might be worth an FAQ entry, since the 7.0.1 binary packages are symlinked to the 7.0 binary packages and the osabi package would be "wrong" for 7.0.1. -- Roy Bixler <rcbix...@nyx.net> "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." -- Richard P. Feynman