Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 17:31:35 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Jad Cooper <jadcooper@yahoo.com> Cc: "george@ceetonetechnology.com" <george@ceetonetechnology.com>, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi image and pkg_add, pkg etc Message-ID: <20130306163135.GA45920@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <7198D3D7-AEFA-4054-8769-4B5E64C015D3@yahoo.com> References: <642BFD16-A5E3-447F-9C52-6855AB1E5CC4@yahoo.com> <1362524363.1291.51.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <5136B2A3.4010701@ceetonetechnology.com> <20130306123945.60aff30773fdd0fb2707a635@ddteam.net> <7198D3D7-AEFA-4054-8769-4B5E64C015D3@yahoo.com>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:56:47AM -0500, Jad Cooper wrote: > Hi all thanks for taking the time to reply. >=20 > Indeed the packages are all available for ARM. Not on the FreeBSD side, we do not provide any packages for arm, may that be pkgng or the old pkg_install, where did you find any packages? > When I delved into installing packages initially there were issues. > These are specific to the rpi image. >=20 > 1. The pkg_add works but wants to download packages from an armv6 dir tha= t's not in the public repo. > 2. Since pkgng is the new manager , trying to get it bootstrapped fails, = so a manual build is necessary - downloading the txz and extracting it lea= ves it missing several libraries. To manually build pkgng the best is to use the ports tree which does everyt= hing needed for you. How does it leaves missing libraries and what libraries, I do myself usr pk= gng on a pandoboard with no problem you mean you have done the whole thing by h= and (picking the sources and building?). > 3. Once pkgng is setup and working the location of the repo has to be set= manually using the setenv packagesite It can also be specified via pkg.conf but this is only useful if you have a= ny repository available somewhere to make binary only installation > 4. using pkgng I have to force install the packages. I don't get this one? can you give more details? >=20 > Most of us are technical but to a hobbyist this is a bit complex, these a= re the tools, files/condos I'd like to repair so that the image is immediat= ely useful for RPI.=20 >=20 > It's a great image already but I want to make it as simple as possible fo= r students to get started with it.=20 >=20 > Do I need to download the image source as tweak the c and header files?? Use the ports tree until we are able to create an arm build cluster, or use= some of the third party package repositories available out there (sorry I have no link for arm, just know that it does exists :) Bapt --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlE3b2cACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzUAgCgs4T+sOojuT6UpWxpgAnEfL9X E+8AoI+0VSHazHTaezkWG5040rSx2QJh =6D96 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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