Anyone Tried Yet On A 3200? Options

[cybernetseraph]

Hey all.


My last Z was nicked last year when i was mugged, after finally getting the insurance money i have a shiny new 3200,(typing this on it).

I'm of course wanting to put OpenBSD on it ASAP, likely after the weekend, but i'm wondering if anyone's tried it yet. i'd be wanting to install over the whole disk

Would that pose a problem, sure i saw thar some of the stuff from the ROM was moved during the openbsd install.


thanks

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[iamasmith]

The short answer is that I don't know who kindly builds the packages feed for the Zaurus for the snapshot fork but it doesn't happen too often. It takes a long time to build the selected packages that usually get built. - there actually aren't any 'official' packages yet and if you are going to run the snapshot then your packages 'should be' in sync with the snapshot you are running.

The safest bet to get a large stable bunch of stuff for 3.9 will be to use the 3.9 release/stable when it comes along, this means that you will be able to use the packages feed from 3.9 release and compile ports which remain (relatively) untouched between the versions.

The way I work is that I update everything from CVS every few weeks and then rebuild the lot but this does take 3-4 days of rebuild time on my Zaurus. Unfortunately this is the only sensible solution for -current since changes in the ports feeds may well be dependent upon changes in the kernel/system/utils/X/libs and so on.

Note that it is possible to keep on a cutting edge with kernel updates without updating all userland stuff.. I do this more often by updating and building the kernel sources than rebuilding the whole lot and have yet to have some dependency fail into the packages that I already have compiled.. this shouldn't be seen as a guarantee or strong indictment of this practice though and if you choose to do this please make sure you have a good backup kernel.

As far as rebuilding packages en mass from the ports tree goes I have a couple of tips..

* check out the /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date script.. this will tell you what needs rebuilding on your system..

* if you choose to update packages rather than deinstall/reinstall them I suggest you automate a 'make clean package' rather than a 'make clean install' set of updates since the package will invariably build but the install may fail at some point with a warning. This lets you batch build and be reasonably confident that your Z is working all day and night and not sat at a prompt saying 'I refuse to update that because it may be unsafe ... use -F <option> if you really...'

* if you aren't familiar with awk then become familiar with awk... awk is your friend. - I use this to cook the output of out-of-date, pkg_info and a number of other commands... very very useful... it may be since you are reading this in the OpenBSD forum here you need no encouragement here.

(I updated the other thread too btw)

-Andy