Re: HP rx8620 - ia64 packages.

Kevin Day <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ia64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 22, 2013, at 4:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Regarding the packages, I have a desire for
> an official package built to be set up again.
> But somebody will have to step up to do the job.
> Mark Linimon (I don't know if you are familiar
> with FreeBSD/ia64 or new, so you might know
> this already) was instrumental in making it work,
> but he recently stepped down from whatever
> ports position he held. Not sure if the new
> person is willing to help with ia64 portscluster.
> 
> Last time, about 6-9 months ago, we managed to build >15k ports.
> 

I'm currently building i386, amd64 and sparc64 packages for 9.1, 9.0 and 8.3, which we make publicly available. If I can get this beast running, i'll get ia64 packages going too. Right now just waiting for the appropriate power to be run.

> I also keep a page on browsers on ia64:
> http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html
> 
> Regarding the users - I was told repeatedly that
> I account for the majority of FreeBSD/ia64 user base.

That's a shame - maybe this will change as more ia64 boxes enter the used market where they're in the budgets for users who don't need to use a supported OS.

Thanks!

-- Kevin

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