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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 22 August 2008 17:48:32 Anthony Metcalf wrote: |
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>> What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't a |
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>> complete -reinstall? |
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>> I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live cd |
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>> step, as you would end up with incompatible libraries/binaries, and with a |
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>> 32bit kernel trying to run 64bit apps and crap.....but this should avoid |
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>> all that, with minimal downtime..... |
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> Looks easy right? |
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> So, what tool chain on this 32 bit machine are you going to use to build the |
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> 64 bit binaries you actually want to output? |
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> You know you are going to do heaps of setup actions, build a new tool chain |
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> then essentially do emerge -e world. |
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> Much easier to just copy stuff off a 64-bit stage3 then do emerge -e world. |
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Easier, probably, but I am bothered about downtime on this machine too, |
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it doesn't do anything vital, but it is a mail server..From other |
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responses though, it looks like it may be better to just get VMWare |
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accepting that it is running on a 64bit CPU...... |
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Thanks for all the rsponses! |
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