On 19/2/25 21:02, Janne Johansson wrote:
There is an unofficial set of mips64el packages if you trust random
people on the internet:
https://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/Unofficial/OpenBSD/7.6/packages/mips64el/
While they are served from my mirror, the mips64el stuff is built by a
happy volunteer found online so I can't vouch for them really.
Then again, it would be the weirdest supply-chain attack ever,
building openbsd-mips64el packages, getting someone to host them and
waiting for someone else entirely to run gmake from this trojaned
version, when from all I know, there now exists something like two(2)
known people caring for mips64el 7.6 packages at all and you are one
of them. =)
Yes well, that's exactly right. The machine has not been my primary
(portable) workhorse for about 14 years now, and these machines were
never especially common. Debian no longer supports this architecture,
your choice of OS these days is OpenBSD, Gentoo Linux or some DIY Linux
arrangement.
MIPS stuff tends to be quite rare as ARM very much overtook them in the
small embedded space… and bigger MIPS workstations got overtaken by
AMD64 (after a brief flirtation with IA64).
I'll give that mirror a look and see where I get. Thanks for the
pointer. :-)
--
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind...
...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
