From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 23 00:12:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8DA3C32F for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:12:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (wmauth2.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.222]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A4061B1B for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:12:37 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) id <0N1F00C00737SB00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:12:28 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-2, Version=6.0.3.2322014, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2014.2.22.230316, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-71-150-249-150.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [71.150.249.150]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.01(7.0.4.27.0) 64bit (built Aug 30 2012)) with ESMTPSA id <0N1F0078P74R5L10@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:12:28 -0600 (CST) Message-id: <53092EDB.3020301@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 17:12:27 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 To: Samantha Michelle Smith , freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PKG issue on PPC References: In-reply-to: X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:12:38 -0000 On 02/22/14 17:08, Samantha Michelle Smith wrote: > 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