Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:10:31 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Back to the Future - 64-bit time_t on sparc64 Message-ID: <40306CE7.6080104@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <p06020407bc533f0ae9d2@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p06020407bc533f0ae9d2@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Well, I have done more typing and testing, and it looks like I > can reliably upgrade a 32-bit time_t system to 64-bit time_t > even for people who install from NFS-mounted partitions. > > I have also expanded the instructions for updating, and tried > to make them more useful and informative. So there is now the > writeup, and two useful scripts: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/UPDATING.64BTT > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/installworld_oldk > http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/time-64/installworld_newk > > The 'oldk' script is only needed for installing via NFS mounts. > The 'newk' script is recommended for anyone doing this upgrade. > > Adventurous people are invited to try this for installs on any > system, and let me know how it goes I have completed a successful move to 64bit time_t using your instructions. This is on a Netra t1 using cvs sources from Saturday morning. Everything went smoothly. The only thing I did differently was rather than using portupgrade to rebuild all my ports, I played it safe and did a pkg_deinstall '*' right before booting into the new kernel. Then after using the script installworld_newk (and booting again), I reinstalled perl, ruby, and portupgrade. Then I used portinstall to install the rest of my ports. So far, no problems. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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