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Re: Debian GNU/kNetBSD Sources



On 26/02/13 23:08, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Steven Chamberlain wrote:
>> On 26/02/13 08:26, Martin wrote:
>>> I understand that the Debian GNU Netbsd project is inactive and has been
>>> since 2002, but is the source of what was done still available?
>>
>> It would be nice to be able to dig this up, but it's actually kind of
>> strange how few traces of it can still be found online.  It seems like
>> bandwidth, FTP space and source code repositories were still relatively
>> scarce 10 years ago.
> 
> IIRC the final death for Debian GNU/NetBSD and Debian GNU/FreeBSD
> (without "k") was a fire in combination with no backup:
> 
> http://web.archive.org/web/20110728174822/http://www.debian.org/ports/freebsd/bsd-libc-based
> (Citing from there: "There were packages available but the public copy
> is no longer available due to a server lost in fire. Due to this and
> some other unfortunate circumstances, the progress on the port is
> presently stalled.")
> 
> See also http://www.debian.org/News/2002/20021122
> 
> Guessing from other sources on the net, it seems that the GNU/NetBSD
> and Debian GNU/FreeBSD (without "k") projects had a lot in common, so
> this probably also explains the lack of code and other traces on the
> net for Debian GNU/NetBSD.
> 
> 		Regards, Axel

Here you have some more information:

* Original thread: 

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/6253

* Files linked in the thread recovered from the past:

  http://web.archive.org/web/20040407191631/http://people.debian.org/~rmh/knetbsd/pub/

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