From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 29 16:21:01 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C8A1065674 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:21:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from xps.daemonology.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 587E3155D59 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11909 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2010 16:20:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 Mar 2010 16:20:55 -0000 Message-ID: <4BB0D367.1090801@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:20:55 -0700 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin References: <4BA9C0AC.3080801@wooh.hu> <20100325233558.GI20888@alchemy.franken.de> <4BACCC0C.7010401@freebsd.org> <201003291208.10513.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201003291208.10513.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:07:57 +0000 Cc: Mark Linimon , FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, kensmith@freebsd.org, Marius Strobl Subject: Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available? 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: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:21:01 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > 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? Cross-building "works" in the sense of finishing with something which looks like a release; but when I tried it a few years ago (when I was writing the current generation of freebsd-update) there were some files which built differently for cross vs. native builds. IIRC it wasn't a huge number of files, though. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid