Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 23:33:28 +0300 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Demelier David <demelier.david@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64? Message-ID: <AANLkTilIdG2m1_S4AQT00CR4CtSaUFsCr7k5npuQyIk1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100530194401.GA12756@Melon.malikania.fr> References: <AANLkTinkGYhDHtGBjyCcWIdG6ePPgqAAxeoTdGZHD4zP@mail.gmail.com> <20100530194401.GA12756@Melon.malikania.fr>
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On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Demelier David <demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ! Why can't we handle this the same we handle upgrading cross major versions systems? -- Eitan Adler
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