From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Fri Jan 20 14:46:51 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE54CB8D11 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:46:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crest@rlwinm.de) Received: from smtp.rlwinm.de (smtp.rlwinm.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:201:31ef::e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C921F1024 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:46:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crest@rlwinm.de) Received: from x220.rlwinm.de (unknown [46.183.103.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.rlwinm.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00C6D119CC for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:46:46 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi 3B To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: <1466381073.4024566.1484325593959.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1466381073.4024566.1484325593959@mail.yahoo.com> <20170113170536.GF70816@corpmail.liquidneon.com> <51ae9eae-9e0d-39bd-d265-4c8fc37f75bd@zilon.de> <20170119180007.GL70816@corpmail.liquidneon.com> <5AD8F2D5-89A3-4A4D-8857-AE7980B131B9@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> From: Jan Bramkamp Message-ID: <905d5f1d-f01e-425e-7111-33addda4be55@rlwinm.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:46:31 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5AD8F2D5-89A3-4A4D-8857-AE7980B131B9@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:46:51 -0000 On 19.01.2017 19:56, Paul Mather wrote: > On Jan 19, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Brad Davis wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:30:31AM +0100, Thomas Schemme wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> thanks for your nice work! >>> >>> Since freebsd-update is not working with the current branch of FreeBSD, >>> I would like to know if there is an easy way to update and/or upgrade >>> the base system and to apply patches? >> Well an freebsd-update is not something you ever want to run on an sdcard >> as it would take longer than compiling yourself! >> >> Eventually the pkging base work will be the solution for arm devices. >> This work is still in progress and not really ready yet. > > Having said that, I have been using the base packages support provided by FreeBSD-STABLE for several months now on my ARM systems and it has worked very nicely up to now. It will be great when it is rolled out officially. I don't know about -stable but in 11.0-release the pkg base code has a few very annoying bugs e.g. it overwrites user modified config files in /etc on pkg upgrade, but on an ARM system it's a huge improvement on freebsd-update. I'm curious how much the make meta mode helps with source updates on something like a RPI-3.