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Re: Adding amd64 port for debian-edu?



On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 08:46:00AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:46:15PM +0100, Daniel Hess wrote:
> > Maybe amd64 now just looks like an extra bunch of work, but maybe early
> > supports pays out once the CPUs with amd64 support are no longer top of
> > the art and schools relay needs the extra power of amd64 code. It's much
> > easier to tell schools to upgrade to an new version, than to tell them
> > that they need to reinstall.
> 
> I was not aware that you could *just* upgrade to amd64, I thought you
> *had* to install it.

That's the point, you can't easily "sidegrade" to an other arch. As
earlier debian-edu supports amd64 as more school will be able to upgrade
to newer amd64 debian-edu releases.

Greetings

Daniel



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