Failure of release build with release.sh on 14-CURRENT amd64

[Rodney W. Grimes]

On some day Glen Barber wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 09:38:33PM +0000, tech-lists wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 09:27:44PM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 03:30:14PM +0000, tech-lists wrote:
> > > > Found
> > > > A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
> > > > Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports:
> > > > 'ports-mgmt/pkg'.
> > > > 
> > > > root at generic:/usr/src/release # which pkg
> > > > /usr/sbin/pkg
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This is because the 14.0-CURRENT packages for arm64 take a significant
> > > amount of more time to build than x86.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a way of making it use the pkg which is already installed on the system
> > running make release?
> > 
> 
> No.  /usr/sbin/pkg is the bootstrap tool to install /usr/local/sbin/pkg.
> It does not have the same functionality.

One could build your own local pkg repository that contained pkg
and what ever other pkg's are needed during a make release and
modify the /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf file to point at it as a way
to work around this .

> Glen

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org