Unhappy with cross-worlding

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Tue Nov 16 23:52:06 UTC 2010


rank1seeker at gmail.com writes:
> After I've created, bootable binary USB amd64 on i386, I wanted do a 
> freebsd-update, on memstick, via '-b' flag, to avoid doing it later.
>
> Conclusion:
> Don't use '-b' at all, as it fetches updates for LOCAL running OS
> (i386)

Well, yes.  That's what it's for.  It was never meant for cross-
upgrades.  You can fool it by setting the correct UNAME_* envars,
though, if you know what you're doing, but that's not how it's intended
to be used.

> This cross-worlding is a total mess!
> Nothing works.

Nothing that you've tried works because everything you tried was wrong.
You can't just make something up and expect it to work because you want
it to work.  Read the documentation and use the proper tool for the
proper job.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


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