Re: ARMV7 alpha-1 pkg not installing

This is semi-expected, but will take a closer look.  Thank you for the report.

Glen
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Please excuse my brevity and/or typos.

> On Aug 12, 2023, at 1:00 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 12, 2023, at 09:36, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
>> A fresh setup of FreeBSD-14.0-ALPHA1-arm-armv7-GENERICSD-20230811-136fc495615f-264678.img
>> boots correctly from a mechanical USB hard disk but can't seem to bootstrap pkg:
>> # pwd
>> /usr
>> # git
>> su: git: not found
>> # git-lite
>> su: git-lite: not found
>> # pkg
>> The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
>> Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
>> Bootstrapping pkg from pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly, please wait...
>> pkg: Error fetching http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly/Latest/pkg.txz: No route to host
>> A pre-built version of pkg could not be found for your system.
>> Consider changing PACKAGESITE or installing it from ports: 'ports-mgmt/pkg'.
>> #
>> There's nothing obvious wrong with the network connection:
>> # ping 8.8.8.8
>> PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=116 time=27.549 ms
>> 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=26.108 ms
>> 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=26.195 ms
>> ^C
>> 
>> # ping www.zefox.org
>> PING www.zefox.org (50.1.20.28): 56 data bytes
>> 64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=2.891 ms
>> 64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=2.479 ms
>> 64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=2.449 ms
>> 64 bytes from 50.1.20.28: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=2.350 ms
>> ^C
>> 
>> Did I forget something?
> 
> I had to adjust: /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf
> 
> The issue was the http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly <http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/quarterly>
> reference, instead of using /latest . FreeBSD:14:armv7 does not
> have quarterly yet. See:
> 
> https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:armv7/
> 
> that only lists latest/ not quarterly/ .
> 
> Have /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf look like:
> 
> more /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf 
> # $FreeBSD$
> #
> # To disable this repository, instead of modifying or removing this file,
> # create a /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf file:
> #
> #   mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos
> #   echo "FreeBSD: { enabled: no }" > /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
> #
> 
> FreeBSD: {
>  url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>  mirror_type: "srv",
>  signature_type: "fingerprints",
>  fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
>  enabled: yes
> }
> 
> I did not have to do this for the rock64 or rpi-arm64 snapshots, as
> I remember, just the armv7 snapshot.
> 
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>