Cross building FreeBSD

[Roland Smith]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 07:37:38AM +0100, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> 
> Well, that is the question. How to copy those file over. Files have
> special chflags (for instance in /lib)

Use BSD tar. It can handle flags. E.g. pipe the output from tar to netcat (nc)
on the amd64 machine, and send it to the ppc machine. On the ppc machine,
start another netcat and feed its standard output into tar.

IIRC, rsync also handles file flags.

Roland
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