On Thu, 1 May 2008 18:14:17 +0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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". In any cases one is still interested in upgrading GNU libstdc++ from OpenBSD (3.9) 4.1 to 4.2 (and maybe 4.3): http://gthc.org/papers/upgrading-libstdc++-to-openbsd-4.2.txt Comments and improvements are welcomed. :) Regards, Etienne -- Etienne Robillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
