Raspberry Pi image and pkg_add, pkg etc

[Jad Cooper]

Excellent - thanks for your responses - 

how then should one proceed after downloading and installing the RPI 
Image - freebsd-pi-r245446.img.gz?

This is sort of my original point, how do I get involved in creating the repo/building packaged for FreeBSD10-Current and/or tweaking the image- the goal being that a hobbyist or high school student can download the image, copy to the disk, boot and start downloading packages?

Perhaps I'm behind in versions ? Did I download a very early version of the build for RPI ? I'm just looking for direction or to join an effort to make it more streamlined right from the outset.

Cheers,

J

On Mar 6, 2013, at 1:05 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:40:34PM -0500, Jad Cooper wrote:
>> 
>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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?
>> I found the .txz files
>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/arm/packages 
>> The file I use with pkgng is the repo.txz file in that directory - 
> 
> Oh I forgot about those one, but they are very old and build on a 9.x box.
>>> 
>>>> 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?).
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes I downloaded the source from github and built it using make etc
> 
> Meaning you are now running on the master code which can easily be broken
> (branch release-1.0 for stable things)
>> 
>> 
>>>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> I have the repo as above - the problem is that the pkg.conf file isn't in the image...
> 
> Nope because 1.0b16 is really old and buggy for pkgng
>> 
>> 
>>>> 4. using pkgng I have to force install the packages.
>>> 
>>> I don't get this one? can you give more details?
>> 
>> When I do "pkg install curl" for example 
>> 
>> It resolves the package but when it tries to install it complains that the version is not correct, saying that the version is incorrect built for 9 but not 10the exact output I don't have - but 
>> 
>> "pkg install -f curl" works it just forces it to install - and curl then works 
> 
> Sure you are trying to install package build on a FreeBSD 9 into a FreeBSD 10.
> curl works just because you got some compatibility bit able to use FreeBSD 9
> binaries but if one of the base library ABI has changed since 9 it would have
> been broken
> 
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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 :)
>>> 
>> Isn't that FTP directory the ARM repo??
> 
> Somehow :), but I do not recommand to use it :)
> 
>> 
>> Maybe I'm missing some very fundamental FreeBSD insight but the FTP folders above contain the compressed binary packages for almost everything - even without pkgng or pkg_add I could install most using 
>> tar - zxvPf package.txz , granted I had a lot of missing dependencies but yeah the ARM bins are all there I thought...
> 
> Yes the pkgng format has been made that way, so if pkgng itself break a simple
> tar xvpf can save you :)
> 
> regards,
> Bapt
>