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Cc: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, kensmith@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?
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On Friday 26 March 2010 11:00:28 am Colin Percival wrote:
> I think the best approach towards having FreeBSD Update support for
> sparc64 is to get release cross-building working; that way we would
> be able to use amd64 hardware, which I think we can safely assume
> will continue to be available in ever-increasing speeds.

Err, release cross-building does work AFAIK.  ru@ worked on it many years ago.  
Have you tried it and run into problems?

-- 
John Baldwin