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Re: [update] More 32bit packages for amd64



Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org> writes:

> On Sunday 17 July 2005 13:28, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> Package fetching is done by reprepro and turning it more verbose gives
>> some more messages but not a download progress for files.
>> 
>> The package fetching is also going to be done by a cron job normaly.
>> Unless it gets an error it should not say anything (in the finished
>> package).  I will think about something for the initial install but my
>> current plan is to have it create an empty archive and start the cron
>> job once manualy in the background.
>> 
>> So, having an interactive (i.e. with download progress) update script
>> is not a high priority just now. Later, for people that don't want the
>> cron job, maybe. But the reprepro maintainer has to provide support
>> for that.
>
> How well will this work?  For instance, I do not really want to maintain
> a chroot.   The one app I sometimes miss is wine.  Do you think this can
> be supported with the new package arch?
>
> TIA, 
> Ed Tomlinson

Add wine and libwine to packages.list and it probably works already. I
haven't found anything besides libc6 which needs special tricks for
the conversion yet, the general conversion rules work very well.

And wine is on my todo. Next time I wanna play StarCraft at the
latest.

MfG
        Goswin



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