Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:21:40PM -0400, Indigo 23 wrote: Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it better to just stick with i386? The only caveat that I can see is a recompilation of all the

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 12:04:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:21:40PM -0400, Indigo 23 wrote: Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it better to just stick with i386?

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-17 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi, i have another Way that might be good, also for remote take over. You know Colin's depenguinator? I have made my own new depenguinator, that could install a complete base-system by building it on another box. Anyone interested? I have written an Howto, that is at the time not online.

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-17 Thread Mike Andrews
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: I may have had to use the statically linked /rescue to do some things, I don't remember. It's not completely trivial, but someone who knows their way around a FreeBSD system can do it. We did it by using miniroot on swap partition of the system disk.

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Indigo 23 wrote: the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of world and the kernel). AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via buildkernel/world) on-line far

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Indigo 23 wrote: the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of world and the kernel). AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:19:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Indigo 23 wrote: the ports? (I already know that it does require a

RE: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Indigo 23
Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it better to just stick with i386? The only caveat that I can see is a recompilation of all the ports. Any thoughts?

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:52:34PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:19:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Indigo 23

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Marcus Kaatari
On 17/06/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:52:34PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:19:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:02:05AM +0200, Marcus Kaatari wrote: On 17/06/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 11:52:34PM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:19:21PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:21:42PM +0200, Ivan

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-15 Thread Ivan Voras
Indigo 23 wrote: the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of world and the kernel). AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via buildkernel/world) on-line far enough to tell the tale. You might be the first :) signature.asc Description:

Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-15 Thread Indigo 23
I was just wondering if one were to upgrade a FreeBSD installation from i386 to amd64, would it require a complete recompilation of all the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of world and the kernel). Thanks. ___

Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

2007-06-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 03:38:29AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Indigo 23 wrote: the ports? (I already know that it does require a recompilation of world and the kernel). AFAIK nobody has succeeded in this (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via buildkernel/world) on-line far enough to tell the