Re: 13.0 packages?
Jason Bacon <[email protected]>
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On 5/26/21 9:40 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > > > On 2021-May-20, at 17:26, Jason Bacon <bacon4000 at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> What's the plan for 13.0 powerpc64 packages? >> >> I have a Mac G5 I was using for port testing, but since upgrading to 13.0-RELEASE, there haven't been any binary packages for it. Building everything from source takes too long. > > https://pkg.freebsd.org has a link to: > > • FreeBSD:13:powerpc64 ( https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD%3A13%3Apowerpc64 ) > > There the dates on things indicate that quarterly is newer > than latest. meta.txz is reported as having date/time: > > 2021-May-20 07:07 > > (as seen in the time zone I'm in). > > https://pkg-status.freebsd.org shows that jail 130powerpc64 started > building on Tue, 18 May 2021 21:01:05 GMT and reached stopped:done: > status, taking an elapsed time of 34:06:48 . It also reports that > the server was: pylon . > > But the linked page: > > https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/builds/default:quarterly:130powerpc64:cdf5bfe36fe5:pylon > > reports only 1976 ports built of the only 4340 that were queued > for that specific build. > > There was another jail that built far more: 130releng-powerpc64 is > indicated to have built 23522 of the 30700 queued. It is listed > as started on Sun, 04 Apr 2021 13:48:51 GMT, having reached a > status of stopped:crashed:, with an elapsed time of 73:28:43 . > Also pylon. > > It appears that http://pylon.nyi.freebsd.org is not currently > accessible. This limits what can be investigated. > > I would guess that: > > https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:13:powerpc64/quarterly/packagesite.txz > > would give a clue what should be accessible via quarterly. > It is listed as being 6058988 Bytes in size. > > > === > Mark Millard > marklmi at yahoo.com > ( dsl-only.net went > away in early 2018-Mar) > Thanks for the status update. I'm actually more curious about the intentions for the future, though. Are there plans to build current and/or quarterly packages for 13.0 on a regular rotation? Is it just a matter of manpower and hardware to get it rolling? Will support for big-endian wane as the focus shifts to LE? Best, JB -- Earth is a beta site.