Make packages for armv7 makes armv6 packages

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 15:51 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote:
> I have a 12.0-CURRENT RPI2 system that I have been updating with
> packages that I build on my amd64 desktop system.  I just tried building
> armv7 packages to see if the system could be upgraded that way.  I did a
> buildworld and buildkernel for armv7 and everything worked properly.  I
> then did a make packages for armv7 and it referenced the files created
> by the armv7 build, but then built armv6 packages.  The 'pkg info -F'
> data showed armv6 architecture, and they were placed in the
> FreeBSD:12.0:armv6 repo directory.   I don't think I did anything wrong,
> and the commands I used were:
> 
>   make -j4 KERNCONF=RPI2 TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv7 buildworld buildkernel
>   make -j4 KERNCONF=RPI2 TARGET=arm TARGET_ARCH=armv7 packages
>   
> I checked the typescript file and the only reference to armv6 was the
> line where it reports it is creating the the repository in
> .../FreeBSD:12:armv6/... at the end.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions on what I am missing, or are the
> packages not implemented yet for armv7?  I have upgraded it several
> times before this conversion to armv7, so I think my procedure is
> basically correct.  The svn revision I used for this was r325018, which
> was the latest at this time.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas on this.

I think the problem is that pkg itself hasn't been updated to know
about armv7.  If you apply this patch to ports-mgmt/pkg

https://bz-attachments.freebsd.org/attachment.cgi?id=187008

then I think it should create armv7 packages for you.

-- Ian