From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 23 14:14:24 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 8E5F2AE2; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-x22b.google.com (mail-ob0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 47798111D; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 14:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f171.google.com with SMTP id vb8so5898642obc.30 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 06:14:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=cJ8KI8Kd+aygLHUcla2eOrHdMQsqT18MtG75x5RxjIQ=; b=OsqNR8RP9Sd4U/GVnVPvccAgAOJ/fvy8Kr+bqkmBfD9DHQkOFhgcrRczoN05/cdFR4 1kO6tKzoh/y42nC5ErcJPNiLKbBz8Xf3JGkov5qehm+j6MVw4UISJZswNZuMrPoKCzsX SSjzoPUZJ7RjCQ2R2OEIYKvG2h3vk9bo3GSljvcA/VITDMxuxHUcgZHIXMYZux84nKXb NL33bNgz1N2NgjxDxSnRf47Hjjs9Nsi13sli7ohBnFcIHetXplOPA1icN8JfPP/CDjuR WpiEUOn9aR7MVPgC52FwjBjESeKgL3DxLuBZbN0djqBbTUTYsv7RqbfeJlOEncgne4L9 nRcw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.97.193 with SMTP id ec1mr17879173oeb.20.1393164863608; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 06:14:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.182.78.71 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 06:14:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <53092EDB.3020301@freebsd.org> References: <53092EDB.3020301@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:14:23 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: PKG issue on PPC From: Joe Nosay To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML 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 14:14:24 -0000 On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Are there any old repositories of packages that she can access?