Sharing /usr/ports between AMD64 and I386 ok?

Francisco Reyes lists at stringsutils.com
Wed Dec 28 07:42:57 PST 2005


Matthew D. Fuller writes:

>> > Is /usr/ports the same for AM64 and I386?
>> 
>> The FreeBSD Ports Collection is one and the same across all the
>> releases and architectures.
> 
> Just make sure you scrupulously `make clean`, or sooner or later
> you'll end up installing a dependancy on the wrong architecture.  Not
> that I've ever done such a thing, you understand...

Thanks for the hint.
This will be helpfull, specially since laptop drives are usually slower. 


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