From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 19:29:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949FB106567E for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:29:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D168FC0A; Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:29:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48D2AC21.8090208@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:29:37 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Berry References: <7D3E2F4C-5CF8-4DCA-8B8F-5AF2015250B1@sentex.net> <48D1F715.2070107@FreeBSD.org> <6064616F-F11C-4EE9-8902-2646E5F6DCB5@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <6064616F-F11C-4EE9-8902-2646E5F6DCB5@sentex.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 64 bit from a 32 bit installation on FBSD 7 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: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:29:26 -0000 Andrew Berry wrote: > On 18-Sep-08, at 2:37 AM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Andrew Berry wrote: >>> Can I simply rebuild the world (or use freebsd-update), and >>> portupgrade everything to rebuild for amd64? Or, will things break as >>> libraries are upgraded which still have 32-bit dependancies on the >>> system? >> >> This is a pretty common question, did you try searching the archives >> or google for the answer? > > Yes, I did, and was quite surprised when I didn't find a clear answer :) Perhaps because it's not a simple operation ;) Kris