Re: Packages to NetBSD 7.0.2

[Graham Jenkins]

> From: netbsd-users-ow...@netbsd.org <netbsd-users-ow...@netbsd.org> on behalf 
> of Manuel Bouyer <bou...@antioche.eu.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2016 6:03 AM

>> Hi everyone my question is When will it be available binary packages
>> for NetBSD 7.0.2?

> so what's missing is only a symlink 7.0.2 -> 7.0

Umm .. pkgin would not update firefox, but would remove it.
But neither pkgin nor pkg_add will re-install it :(

Graham Jenkins 

Re: Updating 7.0 to 7.0.1

[Graham Jenkins]

On Sun 29 May 2016 at 23:44:54 +, Graham Jenkins wrote:
> I was checking how this might be accomplished, and it appears that one just 
> needs to do:
>
>sysbuild build
>sysupgrade auto ~/sysbuild/release/$(uname -m)
>
> Is this correct?

When in doubt .. try it out :)
>From the 'sysupgrade' man pages:
--
 If you wish to track minor stable releases, you may want to do something
 like this every time a new release is published:

   $ sysupgrade auto \
-- ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-6./$(uname -m)

So .. in this case, I tried:
  'sysupgrade auto ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0.1/amd64'

And it worked .. Phew :)

Graham Jenkins 

Updating 7.0 to 7.0.1

[Graham Jenkins]

I was checking how this might be accomplished, and it appears that one just 
needs to do:

   sysbuild build
   sysupgrade auto ~/sysbuild/release/$(uname -m)

Is this correct?  How does 'sysupgrade' know the version to which it's supposed 
to upgrade (i.e. 7.0.1 in this instance)?

Graham Jenkins 
 
   

Re: wireless configuration

[Graham Jenkins]

With OpenBSD, one can completely configure a wireless interface by creating a 
file like:

== /etc/hostname.urtw0
nwid 'My SSID'
wpakey my_key
dhcp
==

This is Really Neat if you are using USB wifi dongles .. it will only get 
actioned when you insert a 'urtw0' dongle.
And you can have a similar file called /etc/hostname.urtwn0 which will only get 
actioned when you insert a 'urtwn0' dongle.
No wpa_supplicant file, no entries for wpa_supplicant or dhclient in 
/etc/rc.local!

So one should be able to use a similar syntax in a NetBSD /etc/interface.urtw0 
file. How can one accomplish this?

Graham J.