switching old 32-bit box to dports

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Tue Jan 14 01:22:54 PST 2014


On 1/14/2014 04:23, Justin Sherrill wrote:
> It's trying to download a prebuilt binary of pkg for i386/DragonFly 3.7.
>  There isn't one - Marino built packages for 3.6/i386, and has not been
> building them for 3.7+.  There's a fellow that volunteered to work on
> i386 dports, but I don't think he's got anything out yet.
> 
> I'd "cd /usr/dports/ports-mgmt/pkg && make install" - building from
> source is your immediate option.  This won't be anywhere as nice.  I'd
> suggest moving to x86_64 in the long term.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Pierre Abbat
> <phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org <mailto:phma at leaf.dragonflybsd.org>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm trying to switch darner to dports. I made dports-create, no
>     problem. Then
>     I tried to make pkg-bootstrap. I got this:
> 
>     # make pkg-bootstrap
>     /tmp/pkgboot.tar.xz                           100% of 1403 kB  474 kBps
>     ABI=`uname -P` /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static install -y pkg
>     Updating repository catalogue
>     pkg-static: http://mirror-
>     master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/dragonfly:3.8:x86:32/LATEST/digests.txz
>     <http://master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/dragonfly:3.8:x86:32/LATEST/digests.txz>:
>     Not
>     Found
>     pkg-static: No digest falling back on legacy catalog format
>     pkg-static: http://mirror-
>     master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/dragonfly:3.8:x86:32/LATEST/repo.txz
>     <http://master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/dragonfly:3.8:x86:32/LATEST/repo.txz>:
>     Not Found
>     *** Error code 3
> 
>     Stop.
>     make: stopped in /usr

Or use 3.6 packages which should still work.  Hard code the ABI in
pkg.conf to do that.

I don't know where the i386 guy is.  Everything is set up and I sent him
a couple of emails over the last 3 weeks but I've heard nothing from him
recently.

John


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