Re: ARMV7 alpha-1 pkg not installing

Mark Millard <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.arm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 12, 2023, at 11:19, Glen Barber <[email protected]> wrote:

> I will make sure there is a package set for this arch, just as was the case for previous releases.
> 
> Good to know I will not need to look further though. :-)

Well, the aarch64 examples had /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf referencing latest/
up front instead of quarterly/ . It is not obvious to me why aarch64
vs. armv7 would be different for this --but they were as I remember.
I made armv7 match the working aarch64 structure.

> Glen
> Sent from my phone.
> Please excuse my brevity and/or typos.
> 
>> On Aug 12, 2023, at 1:33 PM, bob prohaska <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, Aug 12, 2023 at 10:00:17AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>>> 
>>> I had to adjust: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
>>> 
>>> The issue was the http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly <http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly>
>>> reference, instead of using /latest . FreeBSD:14:armv7 does not
>>> have quarterly yet. See:
>>> 
>>> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/
>>> 
>>> that only lists latest/ not quarterly/ .
>>> 
>>> Have /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf look like:
>>> 
>>> more /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 
>>> # $FreeBSD$
>>> #
>>> # To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
>>> # create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
>>> #
>>> #   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
>>> #   echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
>>> #
>>> 
>>> FreeBSD: {
>>> url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>>> mirror_type: "srv",
>>> signature_type: "fingerprints",
>>> fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>>> enabled: yes
>>> }
>>> 
>>> I did not have to do this for the rock64 or rpi-arm64 snapshots, as
>>> I remember, just the armv7 snapshot.
>>> 
>> That did the trick,
>> 
>> Is there a seamless way to track what will become stable/14?
>> 
>> Thank you very much!
>> 
>> bob prohaska
>> 
> 


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.