I'm happy to help as well.
Thanks, Bryan On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach < sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote: > On 01/24/16 00:23, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > >> On 2016-01-23, "Bryan C. Everly" <br...@bceassociates.com> wrote: >> >> I just noticed that the VAX packages directory was missing on >>> openbsd.cs.toronto.edu and the other mirrors I checked. I searched the >>> MARC.info archives and didn't see anything announcing that the VAX was >>> going away but perhaps I missed something? >>> >> >> There hasn't been anything official. >> >> Vax is one of several architectures that Theo has had to stop >> building base snapshots for because the system is too unreliable / >> the hardware itself is unreliable / the hardware is dead. The last >> snapshot is dated Oct 31. I assume that sebastia@'s cessation of >> package builds has related reasons. >> > > more or less right. Release builds for VAX usually don't end much > early before the release. There were already times, where I had to > stop them, in order to ship. Those two to three months time, it's a lot > of babysitting. When I'm lucky, DPB just dies, and I get mail and > restart, if I'm unlucky, it just gets stuck, and I may not recognize it > for a (few) day(s). > That's why I mostly concentrate on release builds, only attempt > builds here and there in between, just to see/test that my > preparation setup, and DPB stuff still works, or just to improve. > > >> Going by previous experience, it's conceivable that somebody else >> will step in to build the release and possibly a few packages. >> >> Vax has been on life support with ever more perfunctory package >> builds for years. Again, from previous experience, it may take >> several release cycles of hemming and hawing before people face the >> facts and officially let it die. >> > > When there will be release snapshot for the VAX, I'll be happily > babysit and build as usual (: > > > >> Armish, socppc, and sparc are also on their death beds. I'm not >> divulging deep secrets here; you can just check the dates on ftp >> and see that no recent snapshots have been built.
