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Date:      Sat, 26 Jul 2014 12:53:00 -0700
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@meraka.org.za>, ports@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] pkg 1.3.0 out!
Message-ID:  <53D4071C.60607@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140726194011.GB50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20140723144249.GD69907@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20140725065641.GA88239@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <53D3F5F2.7090403@freebsd.org> <20140726194011.GB50802@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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On 07/26/14 12:40, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:39:46AM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> On 07/24/14 23:56, John Hay wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 04:42:51PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm very please to announce the release of pkg 1.3.0
>>>> This version is the result of almost 9 month of hard work
>>>>
>>> ...
>>>> Thank you to all contributors:
>>>> Alberto Villa, Alexandre Perrin, Andrej Zverev, Antoine Brodin, Brad Davis,
>>>> Bryan Drewery, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav, Dmitry Marakasov, Elvira Khabirova, Jamie
>>>> Landeg Jones, Jilles Tjoelker, John Marino, Julien Laffaye, Mathieu Arnold,
>>>> Matthew Seaman, Maximilian Ga?, Michael Gehring, Michael Gmelin, Nicolas Szalay,
>>>> Rodrigo Osorio, Roman Naumann, Rui Paulo, Sean Channel, Stanislav E. Putrya,
>>>> Vsevolod Stakhov, Xin Li, coctic
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bapt on behalf of the pkg@
>>> Version 1.3 does better on armeb. It does not crash while installing
>>> itself, but still complains and get the architecture wrong:
>>>
>>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Would it make sense to get the architecture from the kernel, with a
>> manual override for cross-installs? It seems like that would prevent
>> cases like this permanently.
>> -Nathan
> THis will be completely rework including the patch you already sent me for pkg
> 1.4.0.
>
> regards,
> Bapt

Oh sure. I'm not suggesting this be done now, or even close to now. 
Adding in another case for armeb to the existing ELF logic is a far 
easier solution that fixes the immediate issue. Just musing about longer 
term.
-Nathan



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