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Full sets of binary packages for 7.0, earmv6hf/earmv7hf

To : "port-arm%netbsd.org@localhost" <port-arm%NetBSD.org@localhost>

: Subject : Full sets of binary packages for 7.0, earmv6hf/earmv7hf

: From : Jeff Rizzo <riz%NetBSD.org@localhost>

: Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 16:38:00 -0800

The official announcement of the cluster for building binary packages

for ARM platforms is still a few weeks off, but I'm happy to say that a

full set (~14,000 binary packages each) are available for NetBSD 7.0 for

the earmv6hf and earmv7hf architectures. (earmv6hf is good for the

original raspberry pi, earmv7hf is good for most other recent boards,

from Beaglebone to ODROID-C1 and Raspberry Pi 2)

Once the set for earm is available in a few days or weeks, most modern

arm boards will be covered. We'll be announcing the build cluster (which

is sponsored by the NetBSD Foundation) at that time.

The binary packages are available at: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv6hf/7.0/All and http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv7hf/7.0/All

The intention going forward is that, if you're using pkgin to manage

your binary packages, you should be able to set the repository to:

-r|cut -f 1-2 -d .| cut -f 1 -d _)/All

...and get the appropriate binary packages for your OS. We're not quite

there yet, but that's the goal.

Enjoy, +j