On 3/13/26 09:56, bob prohaska wrote: > It just dawned on me that tier-2 platforms don't get pkg support, > which makes the instructions for bootstrapping ports at > https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/ports/#ports-using > somewhat difficult to use.
I will note that the only instance of the word "tier" in the whole handbook is in: "ftp14.FreeBSD.org ftp rsync (Former official tier 1)" That is not about FreeBSD OS levels of support of platforms at all. Do not expect the handbook to give instructions for when tier 2 is not like tier 1 for how to do things. It seems to be mostly about tier 1 contexts when there are such distinctions that would need to be made --and is implicitly so instead of being explicit about it. In fact, it still has sections that only mention i386 and amd64 as alternatives. Quick approximate counts of references overall: amd64 is mentioned 83 times, x86_64 18 times, x86 3 times with 64 bit also mentioned. aarch64 is mentioned 6 times, arm64 4 times, and armv8 1 time. risc-v is mentioned 3 times. (Sometimes ARM means 32-bit in the document and other times it is used as generic for both sizes and yet other times it is part of a different word, and so so, making partitioning the 22 text matches more than I want to do here.) > > Can a preliminary ports tree be obtained via some other means? https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/archive/refs/heads/main.zip https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/archive/refs/heads/2026Q1.zip > One could do a recursive sftp from another local system, > am I missing something obvious? > > Thanks for reading, > > bob prohaska > > > -- === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
