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Cross-compiling NetBSD -current

From NetBSD i386 for my Cobalt RaQ2+

1. From the x86 machine, grab the sources and attempt to build:
   

   # cd /usr/
   # mkdir src &&  cd src
   # export CVS_RSH="ssh"
   # export CVSROOT="anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot"
   # cvs checkout -A -P src
   # cd src
   # sh build.sh -O ../obj -T ../tools -m cobalt -a mipsel -D ~/dest -R ~/release release
   

2. That gives these results:
   

   make release started at: Sat Apr 2 01:41:58 EDT 2011
   make release finished at: Sat Apr 2 08:54:28 EDT 2011
   ===> Successful make release
   

3. Now if you check out /usr/src/release you'll have cobalt/{binary,installation}.
4. Since I did this from a base NetBSD install on the x86 - I used scp (I prefer rsync) to transfer the sets:
   

   # cd /usr/
   # scp -r release dayid@falkor:/usr/
   

5. Once all the sets were transfered, I double-checked the MD5s by printing the MD5 file to the display, then showing the MD5 for each individual set and eyeballing them. I know this could've been further scripted, but I'm comfortable eyeballing MD5s.
   

   dayid@falkor$ cd /usr/release/cobalt/binary/sets
   dayid@falkor$ cat MD5
   dayid@falkor$ for file in *.tgz; do md5 $file; done
   

6. Once the sets are good, extract all except etc.tgz - we'll use etcupdate for that.
   

   tar -xvzpef base.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef comp.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef games.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef man.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef misc.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef modules.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef tests.tgz -C /
   tar -xvzpef text.tgz -C /
   

7. Update /etc from etc.tgz
   

   etcupdate -a -p less -s ./etc.tgz
   

8. I received a warning after this about obsolete files, so cleared those up also:
   

   /usr/sbin/postinstall -s './etc.tgz' -d / fix obsolete
   

9. Move the new kernel into place
   

   cp /netbsd /netbsd.1
   cd /usr/release/cobalt/binary/kernel/
   tar -xvzpef netbsd-GENERIC.tgz -C /