From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 17 10:15:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8240316A41F for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:15:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7D113C468 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l5HA41gH019848; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:04:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 871EDB873; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:04:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:04:01 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Indigo 23 Message-ID: <20070617100401.GA48338@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Indigo 23 , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <6f50eac40706161521r2b524263la2385138f67e10bc@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6f50eac40706161521r2b524263la2385138f67e10bc@mail.gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:15:02 -0000 --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:21:40PM -0400, Indigo 23 wrote: > Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get > it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it > better to just stick with i386? The only caveat that I can see is a > recompilation of all the ports. Any thoughts? You don't really _need_ it unless you've got more than four gigs of RAM and are routinely running out of memory on i386. Then again, I installed amd64 instead of i386 because I could. :-) No regrets so far. Some stuff like binary drivers, flash player, is not available on amd64 (not necessarily a bad thing :-). I think i386 has more ports available as packages. Amd 64 will use some more disk space and RAM. Doing a clean reinstall instead of an upgrade will probably less of a hassl= e. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGdQcREnfvsMMhpyURAoZ0AJ4o6wWgRTSTfXBn7KcTN9DrUscy6ACfR2aa LwV3s+A9FzsQm7smlldea7M= =wlpy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--