From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Thu Feb 16 14:52:02 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 51E7CCE1E42 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:52:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brd@FreeBSD.org) Received: from valentine.liquidneon.com (valentine.liquidneon.com [216.87.78.132]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "valentine.liquidneon.com", Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA 2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F4AC10F2 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:52:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brd@FreeBSD.org) Received: by valentine.liquidneon.com (Postfix, from userid 1018) id ED12F31633; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:51:54 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:51:54 -0700 From: Brad Davis To: Per Hedeland Cc: murty mvr , freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg bootstrap failing Message-ID: <20170216145154.GN70816@corpmail.liquidneon.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) 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: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 14:52:02 -0000 On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:36:26PM +0100, Per Hedeland wrote: > On 2017-02-15 19:12, murty mvr wrote: > > Hi Team, am new to both FreeBSD,and RPI3. am trying to install softwares > > through package manger, but pkg is failing. > > > > Could you pls help me out. > > > > root@rpi3:/usr/home/raspberry # env ABI=freebsd:11:aarch64:64 pkg bootstrap > > Per both https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/rpi3 and > http://www.raspbsd.org/raspberrypi.html, the correct invocation is: > > env ABI=FreeBSD:11:aarch64 pkg bootstrap > > I've succesfully done that (and, with the corresponding entry in > /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, used pkg to install a few packages) on an RPi3 > running the image Brad Davis announced here a week ago. > > Btw, I would like to send a heartfelt THANK YOU! to Brad and all the > other people putting in a lot of hard work to make FreeBSD a viable OS > for the RPi (and other arm systems, although I currently don't have a > personal interest in those). I tried putting FreeBSD on an RPi1 a couple > of years ago when I got it - I did succeed, but the effort of getting > there and using it was more than I was prepared to spend, and I > reluctantly had to resort to the L-OS. > > When I recently started to play around a bit more actively with that and > an RPi3 aquired later, I got increasingly annoyed with L, and decided to > have another look at the FreeBSD support - and it just works! Pre-built > images - and packages, I certainly didn't expect that! The RPi1 is > running 11.0-RELEASE absolutely perfectly, and the RPi3 support seems to > be coming along nicely. I got both up and running with USB wifi with > minimal effort, without ever connecting console and keyboard. Thank you very much for your kind words and we are glad to hear it is working for you! Regards, Brad Davis