On 2008-05-01, Marten Rizwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have am Opteron box that is running 4.2 i386 right now, due to the fact that > cvsupd doesn't compile on amd64. However, I've converted to cvsync and I am > willing to upgrade to amd64. I'm almost positive such upgrade is unsuported; > however, maybe someone has succeeded in upgrading this way. I'm just planning > to go through regular upgrade, hoping that most of the stuff will get > overwritten to amd64 libs and binaries. Please let me know if that's a > terrible idea before I proceed. I could obviously do a clean install, but it > would take little more effort to complete.
It can work, but to be honest it's one of those "if you need to ask you probably shouldn't be doing it"... If you keep a list of your currently-installed packages and a copy of /etc (as well as, of course, any more obvious user data) it's probably not a great deal more work to reinstall than "cross-upgrade".
