official packages for arm?

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 4 16:12:42 UTC 2014


On 07/04/14 03:25, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Few silly questions, please don't shoot.
>
> 1. Why are there no official arm packages?
> Lack of interest from users?
> Lack of volunteers maintaining the arm portscluster
> infrastructure?
> The fact that arm is actually several implementations
> (RPI, wandboard, etc. OABI vs EABI)?

The basic issue is that building packages takes a lot of CPU time (it's 
about a CPU-month with moderately fast CPUs) and the project doesn't 
have the hardware to do it.
-Nathan


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