Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 21:44:01 +0200 From: Demelier David <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64? Message-ID: <20100530194401.GA12756@Melon.malikania.fr> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinkGYhDHtGBjyCcWIdG6ePPgqAAxeoTdGZHD4zP@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinkGYhDHtGBjyCcWIdG6ePPgqAAxeoTdGZHD4zP@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:51:11PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote: > I know that attempting to change from i386 to amd64 is is not possible > using freebsd-update and difficult using source. > Why is this? Would it require a significant amount of work to allow > such transitions? While the system is running we won't be able to do this. Because you canno't overwrite file with a different architecture if you are running on it ! It will work for a couple of minutes and then you should get something like "exec format error" and your system will be completely broken. Maybe this can be possible with a other OS in livecd. -- Demelier David
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