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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 23:38:09 +0100
From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, kensmith@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> You're the first one to ask in a while.  Since our userbase is small,
> and developer time is limited, we've never set it up.
> 

The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some
interest in getting this running but the showstopper was that
cperciva@ said that a requirement for any platform supported
by freebsd-update(8) would be that the build server is able
to run buildworld in 1 hour at most (unfortunately I currently
just can't find that email). My 4x1.5GHz V440 I originally
intended for this purpose unfortunately still takes 72 minutes
last time I checked. I suspect a 8x1.2GHz V880 would be able
to meet this requirement but I simply can't afford the housing
for such a beast.
Ken, did the V880s at your university become available as
intended some time ago?

Marius