Monday, December 02, 2024

Re: Missing mips64el/loongson ports on mirrors

On 2024-12-02, Jan Prunk <janprunk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed OpenBSD 7.6 on the Lemote Yeeloong 2f (8101B) laptop.
> I tried to connect/sync my laptop to the mirrors to install the binary programs.
> I tried to use several mirrors, but without success.
> Is there a maintained mips64el/loongson mirror with binaries, which I
> could use?

There isn't, 7.0 was the last release where we built packages for
that arch.

(I am a bit surprised there are still base releases).

> Or how do I compile and build the programs for it?

https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html and a _lot_ of patience.
Back in 7.0 the ports build took around 6 weeks, IIRC the machines
were crashing quite often too.

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