Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

[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 (i.e. upgrading i386 to amd64 via
> >> buildkernel/world) on-line far enough to tell the tale. You might be the
> >> first :)
> > 
> > Nah, I've done it several times.
> 
> That's good news. Are there any particular problems in the process or
> does it "just work"?

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.

Kris