From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 12:15:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF63B106566C for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:15:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from christer.solskogen@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9AC8FC08 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by werg1 with SMTP id g1so1683783wer.13 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:15:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=JnKjGv0OGoFh+lZchcqTrCmzCUS4iAUi13w6yJCiNqc=; b=dnOThuvn9LYnnKib8F2zuGPWN2pKz4gK0eOsFtXbsrBas9e04ZGf5Mxk3p/FUmKhed BQQT64h34CHxpfqON5qmbhGea+0p+3c9E9tW4BXCkEr8xxtw6BKHKwSSZHIzIWZXo0WJ XSxPlKJK5toVnIa6876/KnWU72A6qIS5INFHs= Received: by 10.216.138.101 with SMTP id z79mr904400wei.7.1327148100253; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:15:00 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.142.20 with HTTP; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:14:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4F1A98E5.2060207@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4F1A98E5.2060207@infracaninophile.co.uk> From: Christer Solskogen Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 13:14:39 +0100 Message-ID: To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update and archs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:15:01 -0000 On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 21/01/2012 10:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: >> I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and >> when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only >> supports i386 and amd64 architectures. >> How come? > > If that's not an Intel based Mac, then your definition of "new" is, > well, contrary to all accepted usage. > That's why I said "new" and not new :-) > Tier-2 architectures aren't supported by freebsd-update for two reasons: > > =C2=A0* Lack of available hardware for build systems for freebsd-update > =C2=A0 =C2=A0to use. =C2=A0Not entirely sure what the status of cross-com= pilation is > =C2=A0 =C2=A0at the moment, but I believe the best results are still obta= ined by > =C2=A0 =C2=A0compiling natively. > Perhaps. But building 9.0-RELEASE with TARGET=3D worked perfectly :) --=20 chs,