how many users of FreeBSD 12 do we have on powerpc?

[Mehul Sanghvi]

I started with FreeBSD-12 on my PowerMac G4 DP.

Install was just fine, no issues at all.  But for some reason I couldn’t get pkg working, to install binaries or even doing builds in /use/pkg.

I currently run NetBSD on that system and run FreeBSD on and amd64 system.  

I’d love to have the same OS on both systems, so yes when 13 is available I wouldn’t mind booting into that.   

Also my system may be slow but given pointers, I dont mind keeping it active by having the system run builds to make them available via pkg as binaries.  


cheers,

       mehul



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> On Feb 11, 2021, at 02:14, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> 
> So I want to get an idea if we can start trying to move FreeBSD/powerpc*
> users from 12.X to 13.0 once 13.0 is released.
> 
> The problem is that we have limitations on:
> 
> - hardware resources w/rt building ports on 3 branches
> 
> - human resources trying to support 3 branches
> 
> The powerpc ports team (the entire handful of us) is talking about
> dropping ports building for 12-STABLE in favor of starting to build
> 14-CURRENT.
> 
> How many people will this affect if we do so?
> 
> fwiw, I personally believe 13.0 will be a complete superset except for:
> 
> - ports that fail due to duplicate_symbol
> 
> and all of those are problems shared with even amd64.
> 
> (Also, I personally believe that it is fair to say "we do not really
> support powerpc* on 10.X or 11.Y.  Please upgrade.")
> 
> How many people will these changes effect?  It's time to speak up ...
> 
> mcl
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