Re: pkgsrc bulk build information (Score 5, Informative)

My Athlon XP 1800+, with 1.1 GB RAM and a fair bit of disk, was used. A "from-scratch" bulk-build takes between 5 and 6 days. The time for update bulk builds depends upon what was updated (duh). The machine was running NetBSD 1.6ZF (aka NetBSD-current), and the builds were done in a 1.6.2RC2 sandbox. The 15 broken packages which Jan mentioned can mostly be attributed to this setup: we found that pkgsrc/pkgtools/libkver works really well (it's a wrapper around sysctl(2)), but that Linux emulation has problems with libkver (because NetBSD and Linux use different ways of delivering errno for threaded programs). Using a wrapper for uname(1) allowed the packages which used Linux emulation during the build process to complete successfully, but imake uses sysctl(2) directly to get OS version information, and in the end we had to use a hybrid of the two to make packages. The bulk build results do not reflect this, which is probably the reason for the 15 packages.