Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:12:27 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Samantha Michelle Smith <samantha@brokenanatomy.com>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKG issue on PPC Message-ID: <53092EDB.3020301@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAPtMa6R5paCaZVxO4t%2BPOeEpcDHqJh2XtWVSVr0XtDTTarHTnw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPtMa6R5paCaZVxO4t%2BPOeEpcDHqJh2XtWVSVr0XtDTTarHTnw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 02/22/14 17:08, Samantha Michelle Smith wrote: > <http://www.facebook.com/njgrind>Let me preface this by saying if I've > messaged the wrong list for an issue with PKGNG on the 32 bit PPC port of > FreeBSD, sorry! > > I've got a FreeBSD 9.0 powerpc install running on an old Apple PowerBook G4. > The OS itself functions beautifully (even though it's certainly due to make > the jump to 10 like my x64 servers) however after upgrading from pkg_* > tools to pkg, it is unable to do...well, anything. > I checked the main server that my usual pkg config makes a call to and it > seems it only hosts x86 and x86_64 binaries. > Does pkg ONLY support x86, or am I just too stupid to find a server hosting > the PPC 32bit binaries? > > I've spent a few hours scouring google and mailing lists to no avail. > While ports are an obvious solution to my conundrum, I'd rather not have to > build everything by source on this slow piece of machinery. > > If there's a solution available or in the works, I'd be very happy to know > about it. > > Thanks! > > We're currently rebuilding the PPC build cluster, so there is a bit of a drought of PPC packages. Hopefully it will be back up soon, but, in the mean time, source builds are required, unfortunately. -Nathan
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