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Date:      Fri, 20 Jan 2017 15:46:31 +0100
From:      Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Raspberry Pi 3B
Message-ID:  <905d5f1d-f01e-425e-7111-33addda4be55@rlwinm.de>
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On 19.01.2017 19:56, Paul Mather wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2017, at 1:00 PM, Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> 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.



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