From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Sep 23 20:07:24 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@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 D46D3BE8789; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brandon.wandersee@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-f42.google.com (mail-it0-f42.google.com [209.85.214.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD2A614C9; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brandon.wandersee@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-f42.google.com with SMTP id 186so25954124itf.0; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:07:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:references:user-agent:from:to:cc:subject :in-reply-to:date:message-id:mime-version; bh=ATOplcoSu0W6HEeQpyTL8jNOIf8Gs4mnG8+cnIvY+Z4=; b=TJxVE2QzcQoRbew4hbQNY12buTw/DZfR1QvvihaTVURkUNfvW8bribh2DaqWj33n9B 68c0408VnNcKAkZx8bLzlGem1S56svn2QozUzPX/+C4S1gcz/gzij9NEbk726uSfJs/J W+DV3cOC2L2zHn89J0Q5XokjpXsarm2aZ7LUlb4kK0N9CrEbAaX+euEzgTrwnbqbu3Yd 2wHEprRpL07+UPxwTWhPZFBFkFyjwEvUuI63uN0g2kLwKH0bEdwLJ81sUqaaKbwiPfVD a8Iw/M9m1qvUyKrTpoZWZWm3vTnZNSUz6I9lXHv7GZMwI6jLstlHcF4XBOA4rNjwwtL2 QjOw== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RkV6cJHHjGxKmZ8xR2bgQ4ppiAzYJykoMRtoNt3YE7iHp1a4JqPOWgU1RmEG+4w5w== X-Received: by 10.36.65.2 with SMTP id x2mr5409652ita.78.1474661243080; Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from WorkBox.Home.gmail.com (63-231-169-101.mpls.qwest.net. [63.231.169.101]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u32sm3406505iou.38.2016.09.23.13.07.21 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:07:22 -0700 (PDT) References: <3sgc736h5nzRRqk@baobab.bilink.it> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.16; emacs 24.5.1 From: Brandon J. Wandersee To: Luciano Mannucci Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing ports via pkg on 11 In-reply-to: <3sgc736h5nzRRqk@baobab.bilink.it> Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:07:21 -0500 Message-ID: <86a8eyidmu.fsf@WorkBox.Home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:07:24 -0000 Luciano Mannucci writes: > Excuse my newbeeness... > > I'm not able to install ports via pkg install on 11-RC3. This might be > due to the version not beeing "release" (yet) I guess... :) > if I issue a pkg install I get > > Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... > pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:powerpc64/quarterly/meta.txz: Not Found > repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings > pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:powerpc64/quarterly/packagesite.txz: Not Found > Unable to update repository FreeBSD > All repositories are up-to-date. > pkg: Repository FreeBSD cannot be opened. 'pkg update' required There's no package repository for PowerPC architecture. You'll need to build everything from ports. Others have recommended Poudriere, and it's an excellent tool, but if this is your primary or only machine then I would personally recommend ports-mgmt/synth. Synth is very similar to Poudriere, but is better-suited to a single-machine use case. Poudriere works pretty well for single-machine use cases, too, but it's overkill. It operates according to much more stringent standards that necessitate frequently rebuilding the same packages over and over. Simply upgrading a couple ports could require building a couple dozen all over again. -- :: Brandon J. Wandersee :: brandon.wandersee@gmail.com :: -------------------------------------------------- :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.' :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------