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> but the absolute minimum they owe their users is an automatic upgrade path. How exactly do you purpose they perform an "automatic upgrade" on their user's ha
by urda 7y ago
> but the absolute minimum they owe their users is an automatic upgrade path.
How exactly do you purpose they perform an "automatic upgrade" on their user's hardware? You don't just patch or upgrade to go from 32 bit to 64 bit. You can't hotfix hardware like that.
- rvp-x 7y agoWhen there's a will there's a way. Personally I would go for unpacking the 64bit userland+packages in a subdirectory, boot once into a rescue userland which just switches the directories around, then boot normally. GRUB already has support for "boot once in this alternate configuration", so it's all there.
- ars 7y agoAs I said, I'm running 64 bit hardware, and a 64 bit kernel. But shifting the packages from 32 bit to 64 bit is not supported automatically. And that despite the ability to install both 32 and 64 bit packages side by side. It's like they did all the hard part for the upgrade, and just didn't finish that last little bit (find 64 bit versions of existing 32 bit packages, and install them, then remove the 32 bit).