Re: mips64eb/mipsel packages alsodisappeared

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mips64eb/
> > http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mipsel/
> > empty as of 18 dec 2025
> > Sparc is empty but it was already reported on port-sparc.
> > I forgot where sgimips was ... (was it?)
>
> The NetBSD package repository has limited space, so older / no longer
> active package sets are removed.

I was thinking that may be setting up link redirection to archive
might be good idea, but then  I was bit by sparc libatomic package
from old set  that was failing cmake, so may be this is not very good idea?

>
> Older packages can still be fetched from here:
>
> https://pkg.zia.io/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/
>
> Note these are only packages I've built, so while they're the same as what
> were on the NetBSD servers, packages built by others weren't backed up to
> this server.
>
> MIPS had issues for a while. Building wasn't possible when the build
> systems were locking up or panicing every few hours. That appears to have
> been fixed recently, so more and more MIPS packages will be available as
> they're built :)
>
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mips64eb/11.0_2025Q4/
> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/mipsel/11.0_2025Q4/

Thanks for explanation and work!

>
> John