updating armv6 snapshots

[Paul Mather]

On Jan 11, 2017, at 11:57 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> This question has likely been covered before but I don't see it listed
> on the wiki:
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/BeagleBoneBlack
> 
> If I'm on 12.0-CURRENT #0 r311461 on my beaglebone, what's the best
> way to get to the latest snapshot?
> 
> I don't see src files for armv6 here:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/arm/armv6/
> 
> So does that mean the options are:
> a) svnlite in /usr/src and do the build (any tips on making it faster?)
> b) save configs and install new ISO snapshot?
> 
> If b is the best option, all installed applications are lost. Is it
> possible to save apps off the beaglebone and put back in respective
> places on bbone's new ISO image, or would that cause ABI/API issues?
> 
> c) stick with r311461
> d) anything else?


Under d), I cross-build my FreeBSD/arm world and kernels on a fast FreeBSD/amd64 system and then use the "packaged base" feature of FreeBSD 11+ to make OS packages.  I then update my FreeBSD/arm systems via "pkg upgrade" which pulls from this repository on the FreeBSD/amd64 machine.

This has appeared to work fine so far since I started doing it.  See this posting to freebsd-arm for details: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2016-July/014444.html

I think this approach should get more solid as the PkgBase effort gets closer to official roll out.

Cheers,

Paul.