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Running FreeBSD 10 arm image in a chroot

Outlined below is a general technique for running FreeBSD/arm (32-bit) in a chroot running on a FreeBSD/amd64 host. It will focus running FreeBSD 10.4, but can be used for any version. A user in the community is trying very hard to update a 10.4 machine to something newer and needs to build a new shell and is having trouble. So I went through these steps to create an environment where I could build it for him. I thought I'd document them for everybody.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use feature 'say';

use Sys::Hostname;
use HTTP::Tiny;

# This script posts your OpenBSD dmesg to the NYC*BUG dmesg archive.