Re: list of valid ABI combinations

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:01 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking to add package support to FreshPorts - so you can know if a 
> package exists for a given ABI (e.g. FreeBSD:12:amd64).
>
> The goal, write a script which does something like this:
>
>   for abi in $ABIS
>   do
>     fetch -o abi. packagesite.txz 
> https://pkg.freebsd.org/$abi/latest/packagesite.txz
>     # parse the file, updating the database
>   done
>
> Is there a list of current valid ABI combinations.
>
> I see a list at https://pkg.freebsd.org/ - is this manually maintained?
>
> While my goal is to have FreshPorts require minimal intervention, I 
> suppose new ABI combinations do not come along frequently and could be 
> maintained manually. It does not seem like a huge task.
>
> More details here: https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/142

I see I have been trying to figure this out for a few years.

Does anyone have any ideas as to where this might be determined?

-- 
  Dan Langille
  dan@langille.org