how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc?

[Julio Merino]

I have a PowerMac G5 (that I got recently) currently running 12. It was an
awesome experience to install the system and quickly get going with "pkg
install" right after; wasn't expecting binary packages to be available at
all.

I want to upgrade it to 13 but the last attempt at trying this release's
installer failed to boot... need to try again; we'll see.


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:14 PM Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:

> So I want to get an idea if we can start trying to move FreeBSD/powerpc*
> users from 12.X to 13.0 once 13.0 is released.
>
> The problem is that we have limitations on:
>
>  - hardware resources w/rt building ports on 3 branches
>
>  - human resources trying to support 3 branches
>
> The powerpc ports team (the entire handful of us) is talking about
> dropping ports building for 12-STABLE in favor of starting to build
> 14-CURRENT.
>
> How many people will this affect if we do so?
>
> fwiw, I personally believe 13.0 will be a complete superset except for:
>
>  - ports that fail due to duplicate_symbol
>
> and all of those are problems shared with even amd64.
>
> (Also, I personally believe that it is fair to say "we do not really
> support powerpc* on 10.X or 11.Y.  Please upgrade.")
>
> How many people will these changes effect?  It's time to speak up ...
>
> mcl
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