poudriere-armv6.md

FreeBSD pkgng for the Raspberry Pi (ARMv6)

Background (pre-req: build packages)

• Building Packages with Poudriere
• See also
  • How To Set Up a Poudriere Build System to Create Packages for your FreeBSD Servers
  • BSD Now: Making a binary package repository with poudriere
  • Building a package repository for FreeBSD with poudriere and pkgng
  • Trying poo-DRE-eh — uh, poudriere

Make ARMv6 packages

• Using qemu-user to chroot and bootstrap other architectures on FreeBSD
  • Building packages through emulation
  • Package building farm for AMD64 and ARMv6
  • Poudriere jail option: -a arm.armv6
  • How to build and use QEMU User Mode on FreeBSD
• Pre-built repos
  • Raspberry Pi package repository
  • FreeBSD 10.x unofficial repository for Raspberry Pi
  • ARMv6 ports status

Results

Build env:

[root@ ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD  10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
[root@ ~]# chroot /usr/local/poudriere/jails/10armv6
root@:/ # uname -a
FreeBSD  10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0 r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  arm

Raspberry Pi

[chris@raspberry-pi ~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD raspberry-pi 10.1-STABLE FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #0 r281609: Fri Apr 17 11:16:36 UTC 2015     [email protected]:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/usr/src/sys/RPI-B  arm
[chris@raspberry-pi ~]$ cowsay "Hello ARMv6"
 _____________ 
< Hello ARMv6 >
 ------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||
[chris@raspberry-pi ~]$ pkg info
bash-4.3.33                    The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
cowsay-3.03_2                  Configurable talking characters in ASCII art
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