From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 02:57:04 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48073822 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 02:57:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x232.google.com (mail-we0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1963EEE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 02:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id k48so42478167wev.9 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:57:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=Ac4xzmLQywmeDCEi1H2iasJanegbb+mUv671I696L7Q=; b=s5EYqr/LbFHoyWxZTJXhSTBy8BFjMZAb6ds/Pokb+2WSvH0NLiUTmUHRXF/9vkvrMJ //gGGL9/WnRFHR0/q1rZLFvw+dcS7BapcZgAlegagD2DGhaxlml/TF1JVdiaP4JWrUiZ 66HMJLRLQMS8LeOB81qwrrKlgoI9pY7kfoyZSI+SptY0NnupIfpFctM5PHcCBa20RnBb 4r+cQ5fUV4CY7L/hxRrEIsGbjPVb5Ht03gQApB8j798gSj9s7Ww3Jr2F7BPbC/NyRHxB LfBwpPk0qa63/1bL0JFSbTofr2jpYm7c0cMKWl8OfEg+CcB3FQ6U56Ne/p2W4n4WiKnO 6X2g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.184.41 with SMTP id er9mr50012497wjc.23.1422932222009; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:57:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.27.93.143 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:57:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:57:01 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: reintro and pkgng aghastness From: Jacob Ritorto To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 02:57:04 -0000 Hi, I'd been away from FreeBSD for fifteen years, but I'm back and I'm pleased to announce that I'm using a computer that's from around the time I left FreeBSD :) It's a nice little Sun Ultra 5. Bone stock; doesn't even look like the case has ever been open. I recently had to stop using Solaris because they're became evil and Illumos because they're kind of not supporting this hardware anymore. I tried OpenBSD, but its applications just crashed. So here I pragmatically am. I like FreeBSD. I didn't leave out of disgust or anything; mostly just employment being all-Sun years ago. So it's cool revisiting it and seeing all the changes and all the stayed-the-sames. I'm pretty exited about the new FreeBSD pkgng system. I had the extreme pleasure of using it whilst installing my SPARC last night (which, unfortunately, took from mid evening until around 4:30 in the morning. (I didn't have any cds or floppies at my disposal, so I instead built the network / diskless system installl on a virtualbox vm on my Mac and installed FreeBSD to the SPARC from there). Good old rarp/boopt/tftp/nfs! Reminded me of Sun Jumpstart! I was really pleased that this way of doing things still works on FreeBSD Truly a slick and smart design. But is it true that I can't actually use pkgng on my real computer because It's not a PC? I've been looking around the Internet for some hours, now, to no avail. Are there seriously *no* package repos for SPARC? If that's the case, I'd like to help remedy it. I've read around on how to contribute, but it seems none of what's out there pertains to pkgng for sparc. Please let me know if I'm understanding the situation right and how I can help, if help is wanted. I have a lot of SPARCs and they need a trustworthy operating system with software package system that doesn't have to be manually-wrought. "Oh, wow, it just finished its five-plus-hour ports build of freaking tmux!" jake