Yes, of course I know it. It doesn't look good for some casual user wanting to keep using only binary packages, though. I have a few boxes following -current - both NetBSD and pkgsrc - and have to reinstall osabi-NetBSD, then x11links, lsof and a few others with each OS minor version bump. In fact an attempt to install mate on 7.0.1 renders:
---- # pkgin install mate calculating dependencies... done. nothing to upgrade. 8 packages to be installed (0B to download, 50M to install): osabi-NetBSD-7.0 libgtop-2.28.4nb9 mate-utils-1.14.0 mate-system-monitor-1.14.0 mate-control-center-1.14.0 mate-applets-1.14.0nb1 marco-1.14.2 mate-1.14.0 proceed ? [Y/n] downloading packages... installing packages... installing osabi-NetBSD-7.0... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing libgtop-2.28.4nb9... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing mate-utils-1.14.0... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing mate-system-monitor-1.14.0... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing mate-control-center-1.14.0... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing mate-applets-1.14.0nb1... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing marco-1.14.2... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 installing mate-1.14.0... The Operating System version (7.0.1) does not match 7.0 pkg_install warnings: 0, errors: 23 pkg_install error log can be found in /var/db/pkgin/pkg_install-err.log reading local summary... processing local summary... no such installed package mate ---- while some 185 packages - mate's dependencies and constituents - have already been successfully installed. Chavdar On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 at 17:57 Roy Bixler <[email protected]> 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. > > -- > Roy Bixler <[email protected]> > "The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the > sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment." > -- Richard P. Feynman >
