freebsd-update broken?

[Paul Schmehl]

--On Friday, March 31, 2006 10:19:33 +0100 Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> 
wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 20:09 -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> security/freebsd-update is supposed to work for amd64, however:
>>
>> freebsd-update fetch
>> Fetching public key...
>> fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/amd64/6.0/pub.key: Not Found
>> Error fetching updates
>>
>> There is not amd64 directory on the server.
>
> There's no support (at the moment) for !i386 archs.

Why is this in the Makefile then?

# The RSA code has been tested and works on these platforms.  On other
# platforms, it either doesn't work or hasn't been tested.
ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 amd64 alpha sparc64

And shouldn't it refuse to install on a non-i386 box?

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/