own freebsd-update server for RPi3

[Brad Davis]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, at 8:54 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a RPi3 running freebsd 12.1R and I need to use custom kernel (pf 
> compiled) after all was configured.
> I used crochet to have this img with pf compiled in, and now I need to 
> update my RPi with that image.
> 
> I found this link 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-update-server/index.html
> 
> But it is old and I tested it and was not working for me. Is that 
> another way I can update my RPi rather then compile it on itself?
> 
> If anyone has any hints, thanks.

It really isn't practical to run freebsd-update on the RPi as a client.  The way freebsd-update involves lots of fork/exec and sha256 calls that would take far too long on the SD Card.  You are better off actually building and installing on the SD Card.  In the future we hope that pkgbase will make updating small ARM boards much easier.


Regards,
Brad Davis