Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:19:35 -0500 From: Kevin Day <kevin@your.org> To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP rx8620 - ia64 packages. Message-ID: <E54784A4-8631-4DF7-9147-9827BE7EBF24@your.org> In-Reply-To: <201303222101.r2ML10v7085020@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <201303222101.r2ML10v7085020@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> = wrote: >=20 >=20 > Regarding the packages, I have a desire for > an official package built to be set up again. > But somebody will have to step up to do the job. > Mark Linimon (I don't know if you are familiar > with FreeBSD/ia64 or new, so you might know > this already) was instrumental in making it work, > but he recently stepped down from whatever > ports position he held. Not sure if the new > person is willing to help with ia64 portscluster. >=20 > Last time, about 6-9 months ago, we managed to build >15k ports. >=20 I'm currently building i386, amd64 and sparc64 packages for 9.1, 9.0 and = 8.3, which we make publicly available. If I can get this beast running, = i'll get ia64 packages going too. Right now just waiting for the = appropriate power to be run. > I also keep a page on browsers on ia64: > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html >=20 > Regarding the users - I was told repeatedly that > I account for the majority of FreeBSD/ia64 user base. That's a shame - maybe this will change as more ia64 boxes enter the = used market where they're in the budgets for users who don't need to use = a supported OS. Thanks! -- Kevin
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