Re: freebsd-sparc64 Digest, Vol 750, Issue 3

Seems like a wastet to throw away an entire platform just because a repo is
screwed up.  Just fix it and repost the image.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 7:00 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

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> From: Ed Maste <[email protected]>
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> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 06:46, Alex Ernst <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Thank you guys for the info.
> > I think it is confusing to provide stable official images for sparc64
> > packing amd64 repository into FreeBSD-12.1-RELEASE-sparc64-dvd1.iso.xz :)
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> Indeed, this is certainly not intentional, and quite undesirable. That
> said, I'm not sure there's a sensible remedy; deleting the image is
> likely our only option other than the status quo, and I'm not sure
> that having no image at all is better.
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> On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 04:42:35AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote:
> > I'm not sure that having no image at all is better.
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> There's no upgrade path, and no need to encourage new installs even of the
> existing bits.  I'd say delete it.
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> mcl
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