From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 12:16:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207B016A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:16:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rly11a.srv.mailcontrol.com (cluster-a.mailcontrol.com [80.69.8.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC5043D1F for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 12:16:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from james.gallagher@misys.com) Received: from singex2.misys.com ([203.126.166.10])j4BCFf3c015393; Wed, 11 May 2005 13:15:43 +0100 Received: by singex2.misys.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Wed, 11 May 2005 20:13:27 +0800 Message-ID: From: "Gallagher, James" To: "'Garance A Drosihn'" , Chuck Robey , sparc64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:13:25 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) X-Scanned-By: MailControl A-05-00-20 (www.mailcontrol.com) Content-Type: text/plain X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: RE: 64 bit time? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 12:16:03 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Garance A Drosihn [mailto:drosih@rpi.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 9:46 AM > To: Gallagher, James; Chuck Robey; sparc64@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: 64 bit time? > > > At 1:17 PM +0800 4/28/05, Gallagher, James wrote: > >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > >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. > > Hmm. You might want to do it "sooner" rather than "later". > There are some parts of the system (such as some ports) which > assume you are running 64-bit time_t if the value for > FreeBSD_version is larger than some value. (I don't remember > the value, but it's well before the value for 5.3-release). > In case anyone is/was interested in how this turned out. It went well with the exception of php4 which may have suffered during my portupgrade fun. No problems on the rebuild, machine came up fine afterwards and was able to follow UPDATING.64bit without problems. James