Building packages on different pc to target

I've just installed 4.0-beta on an Inspiron 3500 laptop but
as yet 
there seems to be a lack of prebuilt packages. Due to lack
of hdd 
space I've used remote nfs mounts for /usr/pkgsrc_distfiles
and
/usr/pkgsrc and started building required packages which is
a slow 
job. The server is NetBSD 3.1_RC1 and p4-2400 vs p2-366 of
laptop. Is 
it possible to build for NetBSD 4.0 on a 3.1 system? (I'm
guessing 
not but would feel even sillier if I didn't ask and it
turned out to 
be possible)

David

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:49:05AM -0000, David Lord wrote:
> Is it possible to build for NetBSD 4.0 on a 3.1 system?


No, there is no COMPAT_FUTURE in the kernel. 
You can use 3.1-built packages on 4.0 with COMPAT_30. 
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On 14 Dec 2006, at 3:11, Johann Franz wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 01:49:05AM -0000, David Lord
wrote:
> > Is it possible to build for NetBSD 4.0 on a 3.1
system? 
> 
> No, there is no COMPAT_FUTURE in the kernel. 
> You can use 3.1-built packages on 4.0 with COMPAT_30. 

Thanks, I'll try installing some of pkgs from the server
then.

The laptop had 3.1 installed just before 4.0 was available
so 4.0 
went on as an update. As that process went very smoothly,
without 
breaking what little I had setup, I'll probably risk update
of 3.1 on 
the desktop to give a faster build system.

David