Re: NetBSD 6.0 and earmv7hf

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 at 14:30, Ernst J. Oud <ernstoud%euronet.nl@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Trying to compile some tools (such as rsync) to run on an Apple Airport
> Extreme Time Capsule.
>
> That beast runs NetBSD 6.0 and has a Cortex A9 Broadcom SOC.
>
> Also have some older Time Capsules here that run NetBSD 4.0, no problem
> compiling for that device, it runs a Marvell SOC, armv5te which NetBSD 4.0
> fully supports.
>
> However running NetBSD 6.0 in a VM and trying to create the crosscompiler it
> appears that NetBSD 6.0 does not support the earmv7hf machine/architecture.
>
> Weird; because how did Apple then succeed to install NetBSD 6.0 on the
> device?
>
> How to go about compiling, say rsync, for the NetBSD 6.0 TC's earmv7hf
> architecture? Any tips?

Is it possible that Apple built the userland binaries with earmv6hf or similar?

> BTW; why does the NetBSD community not keep the packages archives for older
> versions; the binaries for the OS are kept but not the packages
> unfortunately...

I think its a combination of disk space and providing older packages
with known security issues

Thanks

David