On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Kevin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Lemme ask the "big" question...
>
> What exactly is involved in making a 64 bit port? Would it be
> sufficient to run builder on a 64-bit Hardy machine?
>

If you only wanted 64bit, pretty much. However, for it to be in the same
repository as i386 and work seamlessly you'd need to change Builder.
You'd have to update the src package (and then build i386) and then build
amd64.

Brian


>
> How would this be maintained?
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Chris Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Isn't Debian available for 64 bit?
> >
> >  http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r3/amd64/iso-cd/
> >
> >  Chris.
> >
> >
> >  On 29/03/2008, crap0101 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  > Il giorno ven, 28/03/2008 alle 22.30 +0000, Chris Andrew ha scritto:
> >  >
> >  > > I have an AMD64 box available to me, so a 64bit port would be
> welcome.
> >  >  >
> >  >  > Cheers,
> >  >  >
> >  >  > Chris.
> >  >  >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > yes! i think so. At this day the only Free distro available for 64bit
> is
> >  >  Ututo. If we can have it, is undoubt great!
> >  >
> >  >  p.s. I don't remember well, but in a past mail, Bake Timmons talk
> about
> >  >  this, maybe he did that.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >  marco
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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> >
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> >
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