Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Christoph Biedl writes ("Re: armel after Stretch (was: Summary of the ARM ports BoF at DC16)"):
> Doing this by hand is of course neither fast nor simple. The migration
> script you requested could change that, however it's a delicate job,
> full of pitfalls, desaster if anything goes wrong, so nobody would want
> to take the burden of maintaining it. I bet there still are a lot of
> hand-crafted i386 systems out there that never made it to amd64 because
> the admins don't dare to. I bet as well these systems are so filled with
> quirks any automated migration will to unable to handle them.

I think I will probably do the i386->amd64 crossgrade on chiark some
time during the supported life of stretch.  I certainly don't expect
it to be straightforward and I wouldn't dare trust it to a script.

Just a data point.

Ian.

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