Make packages for armv7 makes armv6 packages

[Carl Johnson]

Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> writes:

> 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.

Thanks, but what is supposed to handle that file?  I see two patches in
there, but I don't know what the other lines are supposed to do.

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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org