Re: No packages lately for arm64?
Carl Johnson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Mark Millard <[email protected]> writes: > On Jul 17, 2023, at 08:50, Carl Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have been watching for packages for the new quarterly port builds, but >> I haven't seen anything yet. I already update my amd64 system several >> days ago, but nothing has shown yet for arm64. I checked my logs and I >> installed security updates last month, but there haven't been any for >> the last couple of weeks. When I run pkg update, I just get the >> following: >> >> # pkg update >> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... >> FreeBSD repository is up to date. >> All repositories are up to date. >> >> I have compared some package versions to my amd64 system and the arm64 >> packages are definitely out of date. I am running FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE >> and all pkg configuration files are the original defaults. Is there >> some web site I could look at to see the build status for packages? > > There were major problems with pkg and its performance and resource > use in an update. Official builds for latest were stopped and > restarted multiple times as pkg was updated to try to get past the > issues. > > On 2023-Jul-13 9 builds were started, each on a separate server, each > with 25000+ ports to build. None were quarterly. Looks like 3 > are still not done, one being for arm64 on ampere2. The other of > the 9 build servers are off doing other builds now. 131releng-armv7 > started building on ampere3 but is not quarterly. It has 26000+ ports > to build. > > But 131arm64's quarterly is building on ampere1 and has 12000+ of > 25000+ to go. > > These notes do not cover distribution of built packages to the > distribution servers. That adds more time after the builds and > the status is not as easy to find. > > I used https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/?all=1&type=package to gather > some of the details presented. Mark, Thanks for the information. I have bookmarked that so I can look it up myself in the future. -- Carl Johnson [email protected]