arm64 as Tier 1 for FreeBSD 13

[Ed Maste]

On Wed, 4 Dec 2019 at 09:49, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
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> I'm running FreeBSD/arm64 12-STABLE on a Raspberry Pi 3 using a root-on-ZFS setup.  I've been using packaged base for quite some time, cross-building on FreeBSD/amd64.  Every time I upgrade FreeBSD via "pkg upgrade" it seems to me that it does not take an inordinately long time.  It takes longer than packaged base on a regular FreeBSD/amd64 server with spinning disk, but not an excessive amount of time.  It's certainly on the order of minutes, not hours.

Indeed, migrating to pkg base is the presumed solution for the
"freebsd-update would be too slow on SD card root" issue.

Perhaps you wouldn't mind writing up the steps you're using to
cross-build and install updates?