Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports?

[Mike Andrews]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:

>>> I may have had to use the statically linked /rescue to do some things,
>>> I don't remember.  It's not completely trivial, but someone who knows
>>> their way around a FreeBSD system can do it.
>> We did it by using miniroot on swap partition of the system disk.
>> This approach has an advantage of keeping at least one good bootable
>> base system installation in any moment. Also, it allows move in both
>> directions, i.e. i386 <-> amd64.
>
> Yeah, that's a neat trick to remember.  Another trick for doing
> i386->amd64 is to install your new world into a DESTDIR, tar it up,
> put the tarball onto the root filesystem, boot the new amd64 kernel
> into single-user mode and use /rescue/tar to spam the amd64 tarball
> over the i386 world.

I've used the miniroot-on-swap approach before.  Another trick I used this 
week (when I had to do four i386->amd64 migrations) was to build a 
netbootable amd64 system, PXE-boot that, and then installworld to the 
local disks that way.