Re: What to do if e-mail from pkg-fallout@freebsd.org arrives?

From: Dan Mahoney <freebsd_at_gushi.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 15:48:12 UTC

> On Mar 23, 2022, at 7:14 AM, Rodrigo Osorio <ros@bebik.net> wrote:
> 
> On 3/23/22 14:44, Vasily Postnicov wrote:
>> Oh my! I didn't see that. I tried on x86-64 :) I don't even have arm64 machine. Any ideas what to do?
>> 
>> ср, 23 мар. 2022 г., 16:30 Muhammad Moinur Rahman <bofh@freebsd.org <mailto:bofh@freebsd.org>>:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As the log says this is failing on arm64 architecture. As you have mentioned that you cannot reproduce; are you trying on arm64 or are you trying on other archs like i386/amd64?
>> 
>> Kind Regards,
>> Moin
>> 
>> > On 23 Mar 2022, at 14:21, Vasily Postnicov <shamaz.mazum@gmail.com <mailto:shamaz.mazum@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi! I am a maintainer of System Shock port (games/shockolate). Today I have received an email from pkg-fallout@freebsd.org <mailto:pkg-fallout@freebsd.org> which says the port cannot be built for 13.0-RELEASE-p8. Here is the log:
>> > 
>> > http://ampere1.nyi.freebsd.org/data/130arm64-quarterly/5cd901fb5b37/logs/shockolate-0.8.2.43_4.log <http://ampere1.nyi.freebsd.org/data/130arm64-quarterly/5cd901fb5b37/logs/shockolate-0.8.2.43_4.log>
>> > 
>> > this is quite strange because I cannot reproduce it neither with poudriere testport (with 13.0-RELEASE jail) nor with `make install clean` on 13.1-BETA1. What should I do? Will this port be marked as BROKEN?
>> 
> Hi Vasily,
> 
> You can use quemu_user with poudriere to create a arm64 jail,
> This post gives details[1] for jail creation.
> 
> 

These instructions should be in the porter's handbook.  (Read that as: should be added to).

-Dan