Upgrading an i386 machine from amd64.

[Xin Li]

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On 6/1/14, 11:56 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 06/01/14 10:25, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Hello hackers.
>> 
>> Is there a way to build on amd64 and then mount over nfs the
>> build and src and installworld from an i386 machine?
>> 
>> The problem seems to be that "install" and "strip" and etc are
>> built as amd64 binaries so that the installworld will fail.
>> 
>> Below I have a solution I was going to do a blog post about, but
>> then realized maybe I'd be leading people down the wrong path.
>> 
>> Can someone verify that I need to use rsync as opposed to
>> installworld for this to work?
> 
> Usually the strategy is to update the kernel first, since you can
> use an amd64 kernel with i386 world. Then you reboot, then replace
> world.

That will not work well about a year ago and I don't think things have
been improved since then.

The biggest problem was that some system management API (e.g. for use
with ifconfig(8) or dhclient(8) I don't remember the details) do not
have proper 32-bit ABI implementations.  It would be great if we can
have them fixed though.

Cheers,

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