From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 21 11:55:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A86106567A for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:55:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces+73574-b3e9-freebsd-questions=freebsd.org@sendgrid.me) Received: from o7.shared.sendgrid.net (o7.shared.sendgrid.net [74.63.235.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 396098FC24 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:55:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sendgrid.info; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpapi; bh=SVPbUzKo1C46VQZGnE9ksnsDdes=; b=pl8ON76m56+vuxR+K45jWTCFkQwv LGqg2CVam9vqRRU5s/dBtIVIj4UHXPylF4Efzr/4C31bnTzAeovbpngX1VK9tPrC D8x6ZlWbS84mS1i7fGmOXU6Aq1AGXYdUWRBQT29UeNpH8gnE3PRXeG9NKDc1NyzF EmSym74CEtKDMN8= Received: by 10.16.69.80 with SMTP id mf39.1033.4F1AA5221 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:44:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from mail.tarsnap.com (unknown [10.9.180.5]) by mi7 (SG) with ESMTP id 4f1aa522.38b0.10a3386 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:44:34 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 22517 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2012 11:42:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by mail.tarsnap.com with ESMTP; 21 Jan 2012 11:42:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 25023 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2012 11:42:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO clamshell.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by clamshell.daemonology.net with SMTP; 21 Jan 2012 11:42:13 -0000 Message-ID: <4F1AA495.6040906@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:42:13 -0800 From: Colin Percival User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111112 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christer Solskogen References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sendgrid-EID: FFnPVu6lb0A5TuepcCdqxLOfczNEIxluOZzq9GOc07ryAPeByqssQ0je/6ICti6HoG2/Y3b4irrkD+mlm8PgDmEa1lthSCSDVpeqVNecYq+sOlBGdLa+GuVka4QW9lKwMq7KJAmAis0RoUMa0xov5hxXIo1HpxC1Ilfc0zHDUnU= Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: freebsd-update and archs 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: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:55:29 -0000 On 01/21/12 02:25, Christer Solskogen wrote: > I've just finished installing FreeBSD on my "new" Mac mini G4, and > when I ran freebsd-update on it I found out that freebsd-update only > supports i386 and amd64 architectures. > How come? We don't have suitable build hardware for other architectures, and there are some problems with release cross-building which aren't fixed yet. -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid