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From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6722@twc.com>
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Subject: Re: Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?
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Let me see if I can clear up some common misconceptions ...

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 12:56:45AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I believe portmaster and portupgrade work or worked on all supported
> versions and architectures of FreeBSD

In my experience I can only speak for amd64/i386, but AFAIK yes.

> but synth is limited.

Synth is written in Ada which IIUC limits it to amd64/i386.  I think
there was work to get Ada going under some arm variant but AFAIK it
was never completed.

Synth was never an option for mips/mips64/powerpc/powerpc64/sparc64.
 
> Does poudriere work on all supported versions and architectures of
> FreeBSD?

I personally run it native on amd64/powerpc64/sparc64 and cross on
aarch64/armv6/armv7, on various combinations of 10, 11, and -CURRENT.
I've had it running, under load, on these buildenvs for several years,
both with and without ZFS.  It is my go-to system.

It is also used to build packages on the freebsd.org cluster, including
mips/mips64.

mcl