On 01/24/16 00:23, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
On 2016-01-23, "Bryan C. Everly" <[email protected]> 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.
