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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:00:19 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ports missing their packages.
Message-ID:  <20081029180019.GS1137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081029152236.GE6191@soaustin.net>
References:  <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBIEDJCMAA.fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> <257377.83845.qm@web56801.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20081029152236.GE6191@soaustin.net>

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On 2008-Oct-29 10:22:36 -0500, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
>We also have some sparc64 machines that are on loan to us, which I am
>also in the process of configuration, but these are only UltraSPARC-II
>machines.  There seems to be some work going on right now to get us
>running on US-III machines; if so, then it would be handy to get some of
>them.  In the meantime, sparc64 package builds take more than 2 weeks :-(

Since sparc64 userland will run on sun4v (similar to using (eg) Pentium
userland on a Pentium-4 CPU), the other option is to invest some resources
in the sun4v port and build sparc64 packages on a sun4v cluster.

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Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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