Raspberry Pi image and pkg_add, pkg etc

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 10:56:47AM -0500, Jad Cooper wrote:
> Hi all thanks for taking the time to reply.
> 
> Indeed the packages are all available for ARM.

Not on the FreeBSD side, we do not provide any packages for arm, may that be
pkgng or the old pkg_install, where did you find any packages?

> When I delved into installing packages initially there were issues.
> These are specific to the rpi image.
> 
> 1. The pkg_add works but wants to download packages from an armv6 dir that's not in the public repo.
> 2. Since pkgng is the new manager , trying to get it bootstrapped fails, so a manual build is necessary - downloading the txz and extracting it  leaves it missing several libraries.
To manually build pkgng the best is to use the ports tree which does everything
needed for you.

How does it leaves missing libraries and what libraries, I do myself usr pkgng
on a pandoboard with no problem you mean you have done the whole thing by hand
(picking the sources and building?).

> 3. Once pkgng is setup and working the location of the repo has to be set manually using the setenv packagesite
It can also be specified via pkg.conf but this is only useful if you have any
repository available somewhere to make binary only installation

> 4. using pkgng I have to force install the packages.

I don't get this one? can you give more details?
> 
> Most of us are technical but to a hobbyist this is a bit complex, these are the tools, files/condos I'd like to repair so that the image is immediately useful for RPI. 
> 
> It's a great image already but I want to make it as simple as possible for students to get started with it. 
> 
> Do I need to download the image source as tweak the c and header files??

Use the ports tree until we are able to create an arm build cluster, or use some
of the third party package repositories available out there (sorry I have no
link for arm, just know that it does exists :)

Bapt
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