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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 2014 20:55:16 +0100 (BST)
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
To:        nwhitehorn@freebsd.org, tom@khubla.com
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: official packages for arm?
Message-ID:  <201407041955.s64JtGD4032932@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <53B6F24A.2070703@freebsd.org>

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>There are no longer any packages for any non-x86 architecture as a 
>result of the security breach last year. There are basically three 
>reasons for this:
>1. The old package build infrastructure got abandoned.

Please give more details on this.
I follow quite a few freebsd lists but
don't remember seeing an explanation.
My feeling was that when linimon@ stepped
down as... well whatever official role
he had in the portscluster, things stopped.
But there is probably more to it.

>and if ARM hardware appeared in the cluster, it would be easy to set 
>that up tomorrow. From the OS development side, native builds are nice 

I'm happy to contribute a new RPI-B, or make an
equivalent monetary contribution, about 25 UK pounds.

Anton




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