[wellylug] ????? anyone know why ftp.nz.debian.org is doing this?

David Zanetti dave2 at wetstring.net
Tue Jul 6 22:05:46 NZST 2004


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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Simon Blake wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:10:12PM +1200, David Zanetti said:
> > Any likelyhood of mirroring the amd64 pure port? I know it hasn't hit
> > unstable just yet, but should be soon.. 
> 
> We mirror all architectures now, and there's plenty of spare disk on the 
> new ftp server, so I imagine that when it hits unstable, we'll mirror it 
> (usual caveats of three days of carnage while it all comes down apply, 
> of course :-).

:)

> > (Looking forward to soon rebuilding my workstations to run it instead of
> > the i386 it does now :) )
> 
> Do you think it'll help?

Depends on the quality of the gcc handling of it, but it does include more
than just 64-bit instructions, there are extra registers and bits which
might help.

Dunno, will be interesting to see. :)

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