Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:17:20 +0800 From: "Gallagher, James" <james.gallagher@misys.com> To: "'Garance A Drosihn'" <drosih@rpi.edu>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>, sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 64 bit time? Message-ID: <A99171D862A6D511A8F700B0D0D1307F02ED354C@singex2.misys.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih@rpi.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 12:32 PM To: Chuck Robey; sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64 bit time? At 12:33 AM +0000 4/28/05, Chuck Robey wrote: >>I just downladed and installed FreeBSD-space 5.3, then I read the >>UPDATING and got shocked by the info about time, which I hadn't been >>aware of. Teh info on how to tell if you're running on 32 or 64 bit >>time in UPDATING relies on the sources, not the installed include >>files, so I don't honestly know if I'm running on a 32 bit or 64 bit >>time system. >> >>Do I have to do a conversion, or is it in my past (as far as the >>sparc64 is concerned)? >If you did a clean-install of 5.3-release, then it is in your >past. But if you are running 5.2, and then you cvsup'ed your >/usr/src tree to 5.3, then the switch would be in your future. >You would be running a 5.2.1 system, and reading UPDATING to >find out what tricks were needed to do a source-upgrade to 5.3. >I admit this could have been worded a bit more clearly, but when >that was written I was thinking only of people who were doing >source upgrades. Oh bugger comes to mind :) I didn't read that very well when I was setting up 5.3 recently (from ISO, then did a cvsup), so I went for 32bit. Will have to do a cleanup op at some point in the future. James
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