Re: Testing armv7 on aarch64 via poudriere

On Jul 29, 2025, at 12:25, Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:


> 14.3-RELEASE:
> # poudriere jail -c -jrelease-armv7 -aarmv7 -U https://pkg.freebsd.org -mpkgbase=base_release_3 -v 14 -X
> 
> This one worked fine. I'm using it now.
>  14.3-STABLE:
> # poudriere jail -c -jofficial-armv7 -aarmv7 -U https://pkg.freebsd.org -mpkgbase=base_latest -v 14 -X
> 
> Each would use a PkgBase distribution in the poudriere jail.
> 
> I'll note that -aarmv7 (possibly with a space) instead of -a arm.armv7
> was important for the PkgBase use context, last I knew.
> 
> Thanks for the commands, I'm taking notes for future use.

I forgot to provide another note:

Like the PkgBase specific -a ARCH_NAME distinction, there is a
PkgBase specific -V VERSION distinction as well: In this case
-v 14 instead of -v 14.3-RELEASE . Last I knew using -V 14 was
important for the PkgBase use context.

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Mark Millard
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