pkgsrc-Users archive   Re: current pkgsrc running on netbsd-6
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012, Greg Troxel wrote:  Darrel writes:  About a
month ago I installed beta2 of NetBSD6.  Package vulnerabilities
was complaining about some of the packages and nothing was
updating when I ran 'cd /usr/pkgsrc' and 'cvs update -dP'.  So
last night I ran 'cvs update -dPA' and it seems like pkg_chk
must now be rebuilding most of the installed packages.  Since
the package system is current now, it is my understanding that
now 'cvs update -dP' will continue to download the latest
pkgsrc.  Will I potentially have library problems and either:
1)  at some point update the system to current instead of
netbsd-6   2)  at some point run cvs update to perhaps
pkgsrc-2012Q3?  To summarize, do I have a system to pkgsrc
mismatch problem?  You basically can't, because the bas system
and pkgsrc are independent. (It is true that current pkgsrrc and
NetBSD 2.0 won't work, but any recent version of pkgsrc tries to
support NetBSD 4, 5, 6ish, current, a