Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-29 Thread John Baldwin
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

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-29 Thread Colin Percival
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

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-26 Thread Colin Percival
Hi all, Marius Strobl wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:11:00PM +, Craig Butler wrote: World build started on Sat Mar 20 23:34:54 EDT 2010 World build completed on Sun Mar 21 00:50:58 EDT 2010 Can we bend the rules a little ?? Who set the requirement of an hour ? freebsd-update might be

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-25 Thread Adam PAPAI
On 3/24/10 11:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-25 Thread Adam PAPAI
On 3/24/10 11:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some interest in getting this running but the showstopper was that cperciva@ said that a requirement for any platform supported by freebsd-update(8) would be that the build server is able to run

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-25 Thread Ken Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/10 6:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. The last time

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-25 Thread Craig Butler
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 07:36 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/10 6:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-25 Thread Marius Strobl
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:11:00PM +, Craig Butler wrote: On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 07:36 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/10 6:38 PM, Marius Strobl wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the

freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Adam PAPAI
I feel that the FreeBSD project doesn't have enough sparc64 build machine. Is this the reason why binary freebsd-update is not available for sparc64 arch? The only methods for upgrading sparc64 are reinstall or build from source? -- Adam PAPAI

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Linimon
You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. Right now I'd just be happy if I can get all the major ports to work :-) mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Adam PAPAI
Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. Right now I'd just be happy if I can get all the major ports to work :-) mcl If I can do something for this project, please tell me what to do :) I

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Marius Strobl
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some interest in getting this running but the