From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 9 04:56:48 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D69F16A400 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 04:56:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31A413C491 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 04:56:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from buhnux@gmail.com) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so883036muf for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:56:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=c6pXqEyeZYO8MiXYg3T6mJ54UVPscnypRWSupmzyp/e3n7urgVoZJcr9QRwLCBSx/am3WV+qceo1uy3HFXH+M+ecUsMDjyAwSeZl9KCYRfH+6+gmCan196KYhQfagAqbZhhQFMSQboTWNGRJuN3vdC1kX7ZGHeYU/BK3yeu5nuE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=nHfcmqbWQs5Uy6MiZSYwHeTvXrPnYl7W3N/JU7CzcpIm/xwSC1RRJfyW2F0t+Id6WuvRUeLVF80ULa7IMouo/ptrpS4XMmJA19U5Z3rf5u2xAM7jN6z6c0IbYNuGlbNNprMTKzA6WYD5mlEUFPqBdiTwZnb+U2XJCj98M/oz4N8= Received: by 10.82.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr2059229buc.1173414638268; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:30:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.112.15 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 20:30:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 23:30:38 -0500 From: "Michael Johnson" Sender: buhnux@gmail.com To: "Colin Percival" In-Reply-To: <45F08526.1060809@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <45F08526.1060809@freebsd.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: c0f695430ae47fbf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Update for sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:56:48 -0000 On 3/8/07, Colin Percival 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