On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:41:31PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:49:20AM -0800, Steve Lane wrote: > > Greetings. We've got a 4-core (2 x Core 2 Duo) server that was originally > > built as an i386 machine, then converted to the i386 bigmem kernel, > > and *then* converted to the amd64 kernel. None of the packages on the > > machine, however, are from the amd64 port - they're all i386. > > > > Is there some simple and straightforward (or even not-so-simple or > > straightforward) way of converting the machine from the i386 port > > to the amd64 port without rebuilding it from scratch using the amd64 > > installer, i.e. to reinstall all the i386-specific packages from the > > amd64 repository? > > I can't think of any way. You can create a chroot with debootstrap, but > that's essentially just a harder way to run a fresh install. > > After all you can't have both the 32 and 64 bit version of libc6 > installed at once in the same place, so you can't replace it while other > packages which depend on it are using the other bitness.
Yeah - I discovered that the hard way ;) That's more or less what I figured. Guess I'll be rebuilding at some point :) Thanks, -- Steve Lane System, Network and Security Administrator Doudna Lab Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group UC Berkeley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
