Sounds like prudent and wise choices/rules. Mr Nestor has given me a good path for my needs. I’m wondering if I can apply any of my resources to TNF efforts. I was thinking of setting up a machine here, but I might do better by simply giving a machine to TNF. (The NetBSD Foundation?)
NetBSD has been good to me. I’d like to return the favor. -dgl- > On Apr 27, 2024, at 2:43 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > > Don Lee <macp...@c.icompute.com> writes: > >> I have extra static IPs, and several PPC Mac mini machines. I wonder >> how hard it would be for me to set one up with enough disk space to do >> bulk builds. Would that even be helpful? I imagine that to be useful, >> a machine would have to have some administrative massaging to set up >> users/ssh/ftp/etc. > > You building our own packages is useful for you. You are welcome to > make them available, and we list sets that are long-term maintained in > SEE_ALSO. We have a rule that only packages built on machines > controlled by TNF members are posted on ftp.netbsd.org. > >> I have not done the pkgsrc bootstrap for quite a while, and don’t know >> how much disk space I would need. Fortunately, NetBSD 8.2 on PPC seem >> to be very stable, so running for a couple of weeks on a build should >> be fine. > > I meant that if you need a small subset of packages, then building those > yourself is reasonable. If you try to build the entire set, it's > going to take a very long time. For example, I build what I need for > earmv7hf-el myself, but my setup would take years to build the full set, > and it doens't have enough memory.
