arm list,

Since it looks like arm packages won't be provided for the foreseeable future, 
I've put together a little build cluster to make them for my own use. Since 
building ports can be problematic on embedded systems, I'd like to share the 
packages that I'm building with anyone who is incapable of building their own.

There is obviously a big trust issue to consider here. I'm not associated with 
OpenBSD, so the packages that I'm building aren't in any way endorsed or 
supported by the OpenBSD team. The packages are signed by a signify key that is 
signed by me, but you obviously don't know who I am. (If you'd like to grab a 
beer sometime and meet with me, I'm in Denver, Colorado.)

Building ports on bare metal arm is very slow, so it will take a while to fill 
out the entire tree. I'll keep adding nodes to the cluster as I can because 
it's fun and I'm enjoying it, but I can't make any guarantees about the rate at 
which the build progresses. If you're interested in a package that hasn't yet 
built, I can bump it to the front of the queue.

I'm playing around with emulating arm on my university's HPC cluster, but 
qemu's arm emulation is a bit flaky at the moment. (For reference, FreeBSD 
builds arm packages using qemu user mode, which doesn't work well on systems 
that aren't entirely yours.) I'll keep playing with it, though, and try it on a 
beefy system of my own to see if that's adequate.

The packages that I've finished to date are available at 
ftp://ftp.packwidth.net/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/packages/arm 
<ftp://ftp.packwidth.net/pub/OpenBSD/5.7/packages/arm>. The signify key below 
needs to be added to /etc/signify to install them. My PGP key is available from 
most keyservers, DNS CERT, keybase.io, etc. My internet connection isn't the 
fastest, so if anybody wants to mirror these, feel free.

If anybody has any feedback or concerns, I'm all ears. In the future, I'd 
really like to see packages officially provided, so I'll keep everybody 
informed of build issues and such.

Cheers,
Philip Cheney

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