pkg bootstrap failing

[Brad Davis]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:36:26PM +0100, Per Hedeland wrote:
> On 2017-02-15 19:12, murty mvr wrote:
> > Hi Team, am new to both FreeBSD,and RPI3. am trying to install softwares
> > through package manger, but pkg is failing.
> > 
> > Could you pls help me out.
> > 
> > root at rpi3:/usr/home/raspberry # env ABI=freebsd:11:aarch64:64 pkg bootstrap
> 
> Per both https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64/rpi3 and
> http://www.raspbsd.org/raspberrypi.html, the correct invocation is:
> 
>   env ABI=FreeBSD:11:aarch64 pkg bootstrap
> 
> I've succesfully done that (and, with the corresponding entry in
> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf, used pkg to install a few packages) on an RPi3
> running the image Brad Davis announced here a week ago.
> 
> Btw, I would like to send a heartfelt THANK YOU! to Brad and all the
> other people putting in a lot of hard work to make FreeBSD a viable OS
> for the RPi (and other arm systems, although I currently don't have a
> personal interest in those). I tried putting FreeBSD on an RPi1 a couple
> of years ago when I got it - I did succeed, but the effort of getting
> there and using it was more than I was prepared to spend, and I
> reluctantly had to resort to the L-OS.
> 
> When I recently started to play around a bit more actively with that and
> an RPi3 aquired later, I got increasingly annoyed with L, and decided to
> have another look at the FreeBSD support - and it just works! Pre-built
> images - and packages, I certainly didn't expect that! The RPi1 is
> running 11.0-RELEASE absolutely perfectly, and the RPi3 support seems to
> be coming along nicely. I got both up and running with USB wifi with
> minimal effort, without ever connecting console and keyboard.

Thank you very much for your kind words and we are glad to hear it is
working for you!


Regards,
Brad Davis