Re: No packages lately for arm64?

On Jul 17, 2023, at 08:50, Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have been watching for packages for the new quarterly port builds, but
> I haven't seen anything yet.  I already update my amd64 system several
> days ago, but nothing has shown yet for arm64.  I checked my logs and I
> installed security updates last month, but there haven't been any for
> the last couple of weeks.  When I run pkg update, I just get the
> following:
> 
>    # pkg update
>    Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>    FreeBSD repository is up to date.
>    All repositories are up to date.
> 
> I have compared some package versions to my amd64 system and the arm64
> packages are definitely out of date.  I am running FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE
> and all pkg configuration files are the original defaults.  Is there
> some web site I could look at to see the build status for packages?

There were major problems with pkg and its performance and resource
use in an update. Official builds for latest were stopped and
restarted multiple times as pkg was updated to try to get past the
issues.

On 2023-Jul-13 9 builds were started, each on a separate server, each
with 25000+ ports to build. None were quarterly.  Looks like 3
are still not done, one being for arm64 on ampere2. The other of
the 9 build servers are off doing other builds now. 131releng-armv7
started building on ampere3 but is not quarterly. It has 26000+ ports
to build.

But 131arm64's quarterly is building on ampere1 and has 12000+ of
25000+ to go.

These notes do not cover distribution of built packages to the
distribution servers. That adds more time after the builds and
the status is not as easy to find.

I used https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/?all=1&type=package to gather
some of the details presented.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com