From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 18:47:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 601D716A420 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:47:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B206643D45 for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from pooh.nagual.st (pooh.nagual.st [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.st with esmtp; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:47:13 +0200 id 000000BA.42ED1CB1.000019D7 Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 20:47:33 +0200 From: dick hoogendijk To: fbsdq Message-Id: <20050731204733.271c4f53.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <42ED0C79.5090103@datacomm.ch> References: <20050731191241.3ca8846e.dick@nagual.st> <42ED0C79.5090103@datacomm.ch> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: what to do? amd64 - i386 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: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:47:15 -0000 On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:01 +0200 Benjamin Lutz wrote: > Yes. Ports that are known not to build on certain architectures have an > ONLY_FOR_ARCH flag set. Eg: > > cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now. > There are a few things that will not work at all on amd64 right now, > however: OpenOffice.org, proprietary media codecs, hardware OpenGL > acceleration... Any ideas about _WHAT_ does not work? Do you have examples? "If I can't live without them, then.." ;-)) > Personally, I have two installations of FreeBSD, both i386 and amd64. > They share /home. i386 is my production version, and the amd64 > installation is for playing around (or when the added speed comes in > handy). Why not try that arrangement. That way you can periodically > check up on FreeBSD/amd64's progress and decide yourself when you want > to switch. Sounds nice, although I'm not that keen on keeping too much systems up2date. Takes too much time.. My main (internet) server still runs on 4.11-stable. I have begun to explore 5.4 to get familiar with the new system but find it to be not ready for 24/7. I.e. I use ipfilter which seems to be unstable on 5.4. I don't want to change to pf just for that reason. Maybe 5.5 will be a better point to change the server. It's always difficult to find the right point in time to make such a switch ;) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja