Hi OpenBSD ports, Since Debian stopped supporting Loongson's MIPS instruction set, I turned to OpenBSD to revive my old netbook, though the experience has been good and bad at the same time due to lack of manpower. By the time I started the release was 6.2 and the last available binary packages was for 6.1. For 6.3 mips64el package was available, but again missing for 6.4. (As this is a very underpowered, building required packages take quite a long time, e.g. llvm takes about 3 days to finish.) Also despite having received help from many knowledged people ehre, as an old architechture it starts to struggle to catch up with new packages, for example ruby-passenger has been failing to build since 6.3. Aspell shared the same fate. Overall it would be great if things become better, especially:
* Make sure mips64el packages are provided with releases. * More time fixes for broken packages. In addition, it seems that the file system performance of ffs is worth than ext4 from Debian: for example git pulling ports will take around 2 minutes to finish on OpenBSD (with softdep), while in ext4 is around 30sec-1min. Not sure whether there are ways to improve this. As I don't have the expertise to fix it myself, I have returned to Debian and manually backported packages I needed and settled for now. Sorry it sounds like a rant. Just wish things improve for OpenBSD/Loongson over time.
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