ports missing their packages.

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Wed Oct 29 11:00:24 PDT 2008


On 2008-Oct-29 10:22:36 -0500, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>We also have some sparc64 machines that are on loan to us, which I am
>also in the process of configuration, but these are only UltraSPARC-II
>machines.  There seems to be some work going on right now to get us
>running on US-III machines; if so, then it would be handy to get some of
>them.  In the meantime, sparc64 package builds take more than 2 weeks :-(

Since sparc64 userland will run on sun4v (similar to using (eg) Pentium
userland on a Pentium-4 CPU), the other option is to invest some resources
in the sun4v port and build sparc64 packages on a sun4v cluster.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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