Note the variability in the ARCH columns naming conventions:
# poudriere jail -l
JAILNAME VERSION OSVERSION ARCH METHOD TIMESTAMP
PATH
release-aarch64 14.2-RELEASE-p1 aarch64 pkgbase 2025-03-12
21:11:39 /usr/local/poudriere/jails/release-aarch64
release-armv7 14.2-RELEASE-p2 armv7 pkgbase 2025-03-13
21:50:17 /usr/local/poudriere/jails/release-armv7
official-aarch64 14.2-STABLE aarch64 pkgbase 2025-03-12
21:13:40 /usr/local/poudriere/jails/official-aarch64
official-armv7 14.2-STABLE armv7 pkgbase 2025-03-13
21:47:04 /usr/local/poudriere/jails/official-armv7
main-aarch64 15.0-CURRENT aarch64 pkgbase 2025-03-13
02:53:17 /usr/local/poudriere/jails/main-aarch64
main-CA76 15.0-CURRENT arm64.aarch64 null 2025-02-13
01:35:39 /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/main-CA76-poud
main-CA76-bulk_a 15.0-CURRENT arm64.aarch64 null 2025-02-13
01:35:39 /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/main-CA76-poud-bulk_a
main-CA7 15.0-CURRENT arm.armv7 null 2025-02-20
18:16:55 /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/main-CA7-poud
main-CA7-bulk_a 15.0-CURRENT arm.armv7 null 2025-02-20
18:16:56 /usr/obj/DESTDIRs/main-CA7-poud-bulk_a
main-armv7 15.0-CURRENT armv7 pkgbase 2025-03-14
22:48:11 /usr/local/poudriere/jails/main-armv7
As I remember, arm.armv7 and arm64.aarch64 did not work for setting
up pkgbase METHOD poudriere-devel jails. I do not remember if using
just aarch64 or armv7 would work for null these days.
man 8 poudriere-jail gives no clue which notation style(s) to use:
-a architecture Specify the architecture to use in the jail (for example
amd64). The default is the architecture of the host.
The example from the man page:
# poudriere jail -c -j 120amd64 -v 12.0-RELEASE -a amd64
is not a great one for the issue because of lack of distinct naming
in (from man arch in a main environment):
MACHINE MACHINE_CPUARCH MACHINE_ARCH
arm64 aarch64 aarch64
amd64 amd64 amd64
arm arm armv7
i386 i386 i386
powerpc powerpc powerpc, powerpcspe, powerpc64,
powerpc64le
riscv riscv riscv64
Including examples or documentation spanning what text is
sufficient for each context of (as well):
MACHINE MACHINE_CPUARCH MACHINE_ARCH
arm64 aarch64 aarch64
arm arm armv6 (14.* and 13.*
still have this)
arm arm armv7
powerpc powerpc powerpc
powerpc powerpc powerpcspe
powerpc powerpc powerpc64
powerpc powerpc powerpc64le
would be better. Note that powerpc basically requires
MACHINE_ARCH to be involved in the text because
"powerpc" is completely ambiguous overall without
knowing the usage is as MACHINE_ARCH. "arm" is still
ambiguous in 14.* and 13.* because of, for example,
just armv6 vs. armv7 for MACHINE_ARCH in
14.* .
Similarly there is the questions about when:
) MACHINE_ARCH by itself is sufficient? Required?
) MACHINE.MACHINE_ARCH is sufficient? Required?
) aarch64.aarch64 (MACHINE_CPUARCH.MACHINE_ARCH) is sufficient (if ever)?
I expect that part of what is happening here is
the likes of https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:armv6/
having just MACHINE_ARCH involved in the naming
convention used but other contexts having
MACHINE.MACHINE_ARCH involved in some naming
referenced in the poudriere implementation. But
expecting folks to know those differences in order to
know what to use on the poudriere(-devel) command line
is likely unreasonable. "man poudriere-jail" and the
like should be able to be referenced to get the answer
for what to type for:
-a architecture
===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
