Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:14:23 -0500 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PKG issue on PPC Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOuWhqG5JvciD-PXPm0fFmWuV2Jb9HTpgcYKmW38nSnwvA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53092EDB.3020301@freebsd.org> References: <CAPtMa6R5paCaZVxO4t%2BPOeEpcDHqJh2XtWVSVr0XtDTTarHTnw@mail.gmail.com> <53092EDB.3020301@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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?
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