official packages for arm?

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bris.ac.uk
Fri Jul 4 19:55:51 UTC 2014


>There are no longer any packages for any non-x86 architecture as a 
>result of the security breach last year. There are basically three 
>reasons for this:
>1. The old package build infrastructure got abandoned.

Please give more details on this.
I follow quite a few freebsd lists but
don't remember seeing an explanation.
My feeling was that when linimon@ stepped
down as... well whatever official role
he had in the portscluster, things stopped.
But there is probably more to it.

>and if ARM hardware appeared in the cluster, it would be easy to set 
>that up tomorrow. From the OS development side, native builds are nice 

I'm happy to contribute a new RPI-B, or make an
equivalent monetary contribution, about 25 UK pounds.

Anton



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