Building ARM Packages with Poudriere (the simple way)..

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The current directions for building ARM packages are quite long and need to be updated. This is my work-in-progress directions until I get everything right and then I will update the documentation.

1. Install poudriere and qemu-user-static: pkg install poudriere qemu-user-static
2. Enable qemu-user-static in rc.conf: qemu_user_static_enable="YES"
3. Run the startup script to configure your system for building different architectures: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qemu_user_static start
4. Create a ports tree to build: poudriere ports -c -m svn+https -p svn
5. Create an ARM build jail. Note, this will take awhile: poudriere jail -c -j 11armv6 -v head -a arm.armv6 -m svn+https

Now you can test build whatever packages you want for your ARM device:
poudriere testport -j 11armv6 -p svn -o x11-wm/lxsession

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