Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 07:02:10 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, poopneo.rr.com@gmail.com Subject: Re: How to use freebsd in sony's PS Vita Message-ID: <CAOgwaMt59oEapU2GAk0kChFpKGZ4pz2u2_%2BWjGExkGcq6X_9VQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <571B5B04.7040001@FreeBSD.org> References: <hbEjsIEeZXhgPu9llrvqxQ==.poopneo.rr.com@gmail.com> <571B5B04.7040001@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 23/04/2016 04:33, Austin Walker wrote: > > How can I use the pkg package installer in sonys ps vita and how > > do i access it please reply ;) > > As far as I know, there is no official support for pkg-style packages in > Sony's FreeBSD based devices. Neither have I heard any reports of > anyone porting pkg to that platform. So if you want to use pkg to > install packages there, it looks like you'ld have to do the work of > porting it there yourself. Bringing up pkg on a new platform is not a > trivial thing -- the first thing you'll need is a compilation > environment where you can build programs that will run on the Sony > device. Which means you'll need a compiler toolchain, make, perl, > autoconf and probably a few other applications. Many of these are > orders of magnitude more complex to deal with than just pkg. > > Also, even if you did have a copy of pkg that worked on a Sony device, > what would you do with it? You can't just install standard FreeBSD > packages there and expect them to work. Of course, once you could > compile pkg for sony, then you could probably compile a whole lot of > other stuff with relatively little effort. If you could bring that off, > you'ld be doing very well indeed. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > My knowledge is that Sony prevented running software on Playstation devices other than Sony prepared software , mainly games . Therefore , use of any external software on Playstation is not possible . At the beginning such a work was possible , even to construct clusters of Playstations . Later on Sony has prevented such usages . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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