Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 12:40:34 -0500 From: Jad Cooper <jadcooper@yahoo.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> 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: <C89AFAF4-0A64-4E75-8EEC-05A984E0B40D@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20130306163135.GA45920@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> 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> <20130306163135.GA45920@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. >=20 > Not on the FreeBSD side, we do not provide any packages for arm, may that b= e > pkgng or the old pkg_install, where did you find any packages? I found the .txz files ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/arm/packages=20 The file I use with pkgng is the repo.txz file in that directory -=20 >=20 >> 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, s= o a manual build is necessary - downloading the txz and extracting it leave= s it missing several libraries. > To manually build pkgng the best is to use the ports tree which does every= thing > needed for you. >=20 > How does it leaves missing libraries and what libraries, I do myself usr p= kgng > on a pandoboard with no problem you mean you have done the whole thing by h= and > (picking the sources and building?). >=20 Yes I downloaded the source from github and built it using make etc >> 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 >=20 I have the repo as above - the problem is that the pkg.conf file isn't in th= e image... >> 4. using pkgng I have to force install the packages. >=20 > I don't get this one? can you give more details? When I do "pkg install curl" for example=20 It resolves the package but when it tries to install it complains that the v= ersion is not correct, saying that the version is incorrect built for 9 but n= ot 10the exact output I don't have - but=20 "pkg install -f curl" works it just forces it to install - and curl then wor= ks=20 >>=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 immediate= ly 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?? >=20 > Use the ports tree until we are able to create an arm build cluster, or us= e some > of the third party package repositories available out there (sorry I have n= o > link for arm, just know that it does exists :) >=20 Isn't that FTP directory the ARM repo?? Maybe I'm missing some very fundamental FreeBSD insight but the FTP folders a= bove contain the compressed binary packages for almost everything - even wit= hout pkgng or pkg_add I could install most using=20 tar - zxvPf package.txz , granted I had a lot of missing dependencies but ye= ah the ARM bins are all there I thought...
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