Required osabi version isn't available

daniyl-x

I'm on NetBSD 10.1, trying to build x11/rofi, which has pkgtools/x11-links in dependencies, which depends on pkgtools/osabi. pkgsrc branch is 2025Q1, just updated, same with the pkgin packages.
When trying to build it, I receive an error message saying that pkg_add can't find osabi-NetBSD-10.1.

When I checked manually with pkgin search, and then in repository, the latest version available seems to be osabi-NetBSD-10.0.
Installing this version didn't worked.

(I'm a total NetBSD noob, not even talking about building ports...)
What can i do to build this package? Should i switch to older 2024Q4 branch of pkgsrc?

kc9udx

It isn't in the repository. It gets built automatically when you build something that requires it.

You can build it manually; go to /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/osabi and make clean && make install

It's possible you have a wrong version of it installed.
pkg_info | grep osabi will tell you. If so, pkg_delete it first. In that case, you probably won't have to build it manually, building x11-links will build it.

You could install x11-links as a binary package with pkgin. If it isn't in the repository, chances are you won't be able to build it as is, either.

If you put the repository in mk.conf, you can make bin-install in the x11/rofi directory and it will install whatever binary packages it can; greatly speeding up the process.

I have BINPKG_SITES= ${PKGSRCDIR}/packages/${MACHINE_ARCH}/${OS_VERSION} in my /etc/mk.conf. I know in some cases you have to tweak that.
Edit: you don't want that. You want that variable to be the same as whatever you have in /usr/pkg/etc/pkgin/repositories.conf

daniyl-x

kc9udx
Wow, thank you for detailed reply, really appreciate that!

I forgot to mention that while trying to speed up building process I've added PREFER_NATIVE=yes to my mk.conf since thought it would force using binary packages when possible. But now I doubt I understood it's purpose correctly.

I've also tried to add osabi to PREFER_PKGSRC but may have used incorrect name, assuming these options work as i thought initially.

I'll definitely try to install binary packages first

daniyl-x

The case is solved thanks to @kc9udx!

On topic

Removing PREFER_NATIVE=yes from my mk.conf didn't helped to build rofi, but I've also didn't do make clean or make clean-depends since I didn't wanted to lose all the time spent on building up to this dependency. I still need to figure that out.
Building pkgtools/osabi separately did worked and I've got osabi-NetBSD-10.1.
Building x11/rofi isn't strictly required on 10.1, since it is in binary repository.

Side quest, but really useful for me

I'm really happy to get from 24h to 5m for building the same package on my poor Intel N3520, using make bin-install (another thing I considered to do is to setup distcc with my main laptop, but there's no need for now).
A lot of useful examples for mk.conf can also be found in this thread.