Updating an ARM System
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Aglenda
#As described in [Staying up to date], any Plan 9 fossil file system
#can be brought up to date with the sources distribution with this
#command:
#
#! replica/pull -v /dist/replica/network
#
#Historically the update procedure assumes a network with an
#x86-based server as the main installation machine, which is used in
#turn to build software for machines of other architectures. For a
#stand-alone ARM system, some adaptations need to be made.
#
#BUILDING ARM BINARIES
#
#The sources repository used by replica/pull contains compiled binary
#files (object libraries and executable commands) only for the x86
#architecture. If you have an ARM computer such as the Sheevaplug or
#Raspberry Pi, the pull command will only update the source code, and
#you will need to recompile anything which has changed by running 'mk
#install' in the appropriate directory.
#
#OMITTING 386 BINARIES
#
#If your ARM computer is not acting as a server for any x86 machine,
#you may not want to keep x86 binaries in its local file system. To
#prevent replica/pull from trying to download these, you can edit the
#script /rc/bin/replica/pull and insert these two lines just before
#the last line of the file:
#
#! grep -v ' 386/(9|bin|lib|init)' $clientlog >$clientlog.arm
#! bind $clientlog.arm $clientlog
#