Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:20:55 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available? Message-ID: <4BB0D367.1090801@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201003291208.10513.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4BA9C0AC.3080801@wooh.hu> <20100325233558.GI20888@alchemy.franken.de> <4BACCC0C.7010401@freebsd.org> <201003291208.10513.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2010 11:00:28 am Colin Percival wrote: >> I think the best approach towards having FreeBSD Update support for >> sparc64 is to get release cross-building working; that way we would >> be able to use amd64 hardware, which I think we can safely assume >> will continue to be available in ever-increasing speeds. > > Err, release cross-building does work AFAIK. ru@ worked on it many years ago. > Have you tried it and run into problems? Cross-building "works" in the sense of finishing with something which looks like a release; but when I tried it a few years ago (when I was writing the current generation of freebsd-update) there were some files which built differently for cross vs. native builds. IIRC it wasn't a huge number of files, though. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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