Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:30:38 -0500 From: "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Colin Percival" <cperciva@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Update for sparc64 Message-ID: <b2203fed0703082030x6f4b851dnbc28656ce7e44532@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45F08526.1060809@freebsd.org> References: <45F08526.1060809@freebsd.org>
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On 3/8/07, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote: > > Hello sparc64ers, > > The FreeBSD Security Team has access to some sparc64 hardware and we're > debating > using this to make FreeBSD Update work on the sparc64 > platform. Unfortunately > the words "fast" and "sparc64" don't seem to go together very well, so > FreeBSD > Update builds take rather longer on sparc64 than they do on i386 or > amd64. In > many cases, we will not want to delay sending out a security advisory in > order > to wait for sparc64 builds to complete. > > Would you find it useful to have FreeBSD Update working for sparc64 if you > often > had to wait 24 hours or more after a security advisory went out before > FreeBSD > Update could fetch patches for you? Please add sparc64, I just downgraded from 7-CURRENT to 6.2-RELEASE with plans of using FreeBSD Update because of the build times, then I found out there is no sparc64 FreeBSD Update support. Michael
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