AVILA getting close!

[John-Mark Gurney]

John Hay wrote this message on Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 20:45 +0200:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 08:05:31AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 04:14:51PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > > Nathan Whitehorn wrote this message on Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 16:09 -0700:
> > > > 
> > > > On 06/18/14 15:58, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > > > >So, w/ the recent couple of patches that alc has provided, I no longer
> > > > >receive kernel panics on my AVILA board!
> > > > >
> > > > >$ uname -a
> > > > >FreeBSD avila.funkthat.com 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #27 
> > > > >r267333:267349M: Wed Jun 11 09:57:58 PDT 2014     
> > > > >jmg at carbon.funkthat.com:/usr/obj/arm.armeb/usr/src.avila/sys/AVILA  arm
> > > > >$ uptime
> > > > >12:15AM  up 1 day, 15 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.13, 0.11, 0.08
> > > > >
> > > > >This survived a portsnap extract...  This is all over NFS...
> > > > >
> > > > What happens if you set LD_BIND_NOW=1 in the environment first?
> 
> I'm now trying to build pkg from ports on a nfs booted CAMBRIA. I can
> build the whole pkg, but then when trying to install, I get
> pkg-static: failed to find the version elf note
> 
> #############
> root@:/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg # make install
> ===>  Installing for pkg-1.2.7_3
> ===>  Checking if ports-mgmt/pkg already installed
> pkg-static: failed to find the version elf note
> ===>   Registering installation for pkg-1.2.7_3
> pkg-static: failed to find the version elf note
> pkg-static: failed to find the version elf note
> Installing pkg-1.2.7_3...pkg-static: package field incomplete: architecture
> pkg-static: the package is not valid
> pkg-static: sqlite: cannot rollback - no transaction is active
> If you are upgrading from the old package format, first run:
> 
>   # pkg2ng
> 
> *** Error code 70
> 
> Stop.
> make[1]: stopped in /export/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> make: stopped in /export/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg
> ##############

Yeh, I'm seeing this too...

> Is there some bootstrapping that I need to do? My previous arm stuff
> used the old pkg system.
> 
> Searching on Google I found these patches, but I'm unsure if they are
> meant to fix that.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/pkg_bootstrap_machinearch.diff
> http://people.freebsd.org/~nwhitehorn/pkg_machinearch.diff

We should probably bring this up w/ the pkg folk to get their help
w/ this..

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