More NetBSD-current fun at Linveo!

Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
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Hello!

  • VPS Share

Would anybody be interested in sharing my free Linveo AMD Ryzen 9 9950X NetBSD VPS in Arizona? It's open to friends who want to help me learn.

  • Goals

Tonight I decided to (1) try some method of rolling release updates of NetBSD pkgsrc. For example, please see pkg_rolling-replace (mailing list, 2008 introduction), please see also the man page. I could use help figuring out the best method of rolling updates with pkgsrc.

Also, I think it might be fun to (2) see whether I can get 9vx working. I could use help with the code and the compiling on 64 bit NetBSD of the vx32 sandboxing library used by 9vx.

Maybe I could (3) try the X Windows installation from pkgsrc instead of the xsrc version, but I haven't looked into pkgsrc X, very much as yet.

  • Procedure

I'm beginning by wiping and reinstalling my NetBSD-current VPS at Linveo. <3 The reinstall is from Linveo vmcontrol, which offers @cmeerw's <3 NetBSD 10.1 image.

The process is installing NetBSD 10.1, then, with changes appropriate for 10.1, following the simple NetBSD 10 to NetBSD-current steps in Quick Recipe For Self-Compiled NetBSD-current On A Linveo VPS.

linveo# ftp -o - https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/amd64/binary/sets/comp.tar.xz | progress -z tar xpf - -C /
linveo# which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
linveo# cd /usr
linveo# mkdir obj src tools
linveo# mkdir /home
linveo# useradd -m -G wheel tom
linveo# passwd tom
Changing password for tom.
New Password:
Retype New Password:
linveo# chown tom obj src tools
linveo# su tom
linveo# 

linveo$ pwd
/usr
linveo$ export CVSROOT="[email protected]:/cvsroot"
linveo$ export CVS_RSH="ssh"
linveo$ cvs checkout -A -P src
linveo$ cd src
linveo$ nohup ./build.sh -j 2 -O ../obj -T ../tools -U distribution && \
> nohup ./build.sh -j 2 -O ../obj -T ../tools -U kernel=GENERIC

I like nohup because it gives me a full transcript of all the terminal output and because I don't have to stay connected. Back in the old days I used to start a NetBSD-current build and then sleep. I don't remember a build which failed to complete, but there might have been one.

I will post again, later, or maybe tomorrow, about whether this build completes.

I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Wow! This VPS is fast! Both builds seem to have completed successfully!

    So, sleep now, and install tomorrow.

    ===> Summary of results:
         build.sh command:    ./build.sh -j 2 -O ../obj -T ../tools -U distribution
         build.sh started:    Fri Feb 21 04:34:35 UTC 2025
         NetBSD version:      10.99.12
         MACHINE:             amd64
         MACHINE_ARCH:        x86_64
         Build platform:      NetBSD 10.1 amd64
         HOST_SH:             /bin/sh
         No $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake, needs building.
         Bootstrapping nbmake
         share/mk MAKECONF:   /etc/mk.conf
         MAKECONF file:       /etc/mk.conf (File not found)
         TOOLDIR path:        /usr/src/../tools
         DESTDIR path:        /usr/src/../obj/destdir.amd64
         RELEASEDIR path:     /usr/src/../obj/releasedir
         Created /usr/src/../tools/bin/nbmake
         Updated makewrapper: /usr/src/../tools/bin/nbmake-amd64
         Successful make distribution
         build.sh ended:      Fri Feb 21 05:41:37 UTC 2025
===> .

    ===> Summary of results:
         build.sh command:    ./build.sh -j 2 -O ../obj -T ../tools -U kernel=GENERIC
         build.sh started:    Fri Feb 21 05:41:37 UTC 2025
         NetBSD version:      10.99.12
         MACHINE:             amd64
         MACHINE_ARCH:        x86_64
         Build platform:      NetBSD 10.1 amd64
         HOST_SH:             /bin/sh
         share/mk MAKECONF:   /etc/mk.conf
         MAKECONF file:       /etc/mk.conf (File not found)
         TOOLDIR path:        /usr/src/../tools
         DESTDIR path:        /usr/src/../obj/destdir.amd64
         RELEASEDIR path:     /usr/src/../obj/releasedir
         Updated makewrapper: /usr/src/../tools/bin/nbmake-amd64
         Building kernel without building new tools
         Building kernel:     GENERIC
         Build directory:     /usr/src/../obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC
         Kernels built from GENERIC:
          /usr/src/../obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC/netbsd
         build.sh ended:      Fri Feb 21 05:46:55 UTC 2025
===> .

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Here is the new kernel install, followed by a reboot to run the new kernel.

    Then, with the new kernel running, we install the new userland and reboot again so that we are running both the new kernel and the new userland.

    The new kernel needs to be running before we try to run the new userland because some on the new userland binaries may require features from the new kernel, whereas the new kernel should be capable of running both the old and the new userland binaries.

    • New Kernel Install
    linveo# mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
linveo# ls -l netbsd*
ls: netbsd*: No such file or directory
linveo# ls -l /netbsd*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29528360 Dec 16 13:08 /netbsd.old
linveo# mv /usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC/netbsd /
linveo# ls -l /netbsd*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 tom   wheel  29585768 Feb 21 05:46 /netbsd
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  29528360 Dec 16 13:08 /netbsd.old
linveo# date
Fri Feb 21 19:26:10 UTC 2025
linveo#
    • Reboot To Run The New Kernel
    linveo# reboot
  [ . . . ]
linveo# date
Fri Feb 21 19:27:39 UTC 2025
linveo# uptime
 7:27PM  up 1 min, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
linveo#
    • New Userland Install
    linveo# cd /usr/src
linveo# ls
BUILDING     README.md    common       distrib      games        nohup.out    share        usr.bin
CVS          UPDATING     compat       doc          include      regress      sys          usr.sbin
Makefile     bin          crypto       etc          lib          rescue       tests
Makefile.inc build.sh     dist         external     libexec      sbin         tools
linveo# mv nohup.out nohup-20250221-build.out
linveo# nohup ./build.sh -j 2 -O ../obj -T ../tools -U install=/
sending output to nohup.out

# From nohup.out:

make installworld started at:  Fri Feb 21 19:31:25 UTC 2025
make installworld finished at: Fri Feb 21 19:31:37 UTC 2025
===> Successful installworld to /
===> build.sh ended:      Fri Feb 21 19:31:37 UTC 2025
===> Summary of results:
         build.sh command:    ./build.sh -j 2 -O ../obj -T ../tools -U install=/
         build.sh started:    Fri Feb 21 19:31:25 UTC 2025
         NetBSD version:      10.99.12
         MACHINE:             amd64
         MACHINE_ARCH:        x86_64
         Build platform:      NetBSD 10.99.12 amd64
         HOST_SH:             /bin/sh
         share/mk MAKECONF:   /etc/mk.conf
         MAKECONF file:       /etc/mk.conf (File not found)
         TOOLDIR path:        /usr/src/../tools
         DESTDIR path:        /usr/src/../obj/destdir.amd64
         RELEASEDIR path:     /usr/src/../obj/releasedir
         Updated makewrapper: /usr/src/../tools/bin/nbmake-amd64
         Successful installworld to /
         build.sh ended:      Fri Feb 21 19:31:37 UTC 2025
===> .

linveo#
    • Reboot To Run The New Userland Under The New Kernel
    linveo# date
Fri Feb 21 19:34:19 UTC 2025
linveo# reboot
  [ . . . ]
linveo# date
Fri Feb 21 19:35:42 UTC 2025
linveo# uptime
 7:35PM  up 1 min, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
linveo#
    • Results

    It seems that this VPS is running self-compiled NetBSD-current!

    linveo# uname -r
10.99.12
linveo# ls -l /bin | head
total 1934
-r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   22056 Feb 21 05:40 [
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   22024 Feb 21 05:40 cat
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      11 Feb 21 05:40 chgrp -> /sbin/chown
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   22232 Feb 21 05:40 chio
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   17584 Feb 21 05:40 chmod
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   33528 Feb 21 05:40 cp
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   57720 Feb 21 05:40 cpio
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  190888 Feb 21 05:40 csh
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   27264 Feb 21 05:40 date
linveo#

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

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