PKG issue on PPC

[Joe Nosay]

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On 02/22/14 17:08, Samantha Michelle Smith wrote:
>
>>   <http://www.facebook.com/njgrind>Let me preface this by saying if I've
>> messaged the wrong list for an issue with PKGNG on the 32 bit PPC port of
>> FreeBSD, sorry!
>>
>> I've got a FreeBSD 9.0 powerpc install running on an old Apple PowerBook
>> G4.
>> The OS itself functions beautifully (even though it's certainly due to
>> make
>> the jump to 10 like my x64 servers) however after upgrading from pkg_*
>> tools to pkg, it is unable to do...well, anything.
>> I checked the main server that my usual pkg config makes a call to and it
>> seems it only hosts x86 and x86_64 binaries.
>> Does pkg ONLY support x86, or am I just too stupid to find a server
>> hosting
>> the PPC 32bit binaries?
>>
>> I've spent a few hours scouring google and mailing lists to no avail.
>> While ports are an obvious solution to my conundrum, I'd rather not have
>> to
>> build everything by source on this slow piece of machinery.
>>
>> If there's a solution available or in the works, I'd be very happy to know
>> about it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
> We're currently rebuilding the PPC build cluster, so there is a bit of a
> drought of PPC packages. Hopefully it will be back up soon, but, in the
> mean time, source builds are required, unfortunately.
> -Nathan
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Are there any old repositories of packages that she can access?