FreeBSD Update for sparc64

[Michael Johnson]

On 3/8/07, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Hello sparc64ers,
>
> The FreeBSD Security Team has access to some sparc64 hardware and we're
> debating
> using this to make FreeBSD Update work on the sparc64
> platform.  Unfortunately
> the words "fast" and "sparc64" don't seem to go together very well, so
> FreeBSD
> Update builds take rather longer on sparc64 than they do on i386 or
> amd64.  In
> many cases, we will not want to delay sending out a security advisory in
> order
> to wait for sparc64 builds to complete.
>
> Would you find it useful to have FreeBSD Update working for sparc64 if you
> often
> had to wait 24 hours or more after a security advisory went out before
> FreeBSD
> Update could fetch patches for you?


Please add sparc64, I just downgraded from 7-CURRENT to 6.2-RELEASE with
plans of using
FreeBSD Update because of the build times, then I found out there is no
sparc64 FreeBSD
Update support.

Michael