what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64?

[Eitan Adler]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Demelier David
<demelier.david at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:51:11PM +0300, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> I know that attempting to change from i386 to amd64 is is not possible
>> using freebsd-update and difficult using source.
>> Why is this? Would it require a significant amount of work to allow
>> such transitions?
>
> While the system is running we won't be able to do this. Because you canno't
> overwrite file with a different architecture if you are running on it !

Why can't we handle this the same we handle upgrading cross major
versions systems?

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Eitan Adler