Bug#31450: boot-floppies 2.1.4 fails to build for m68k
On Monday 11 January 1999, at 11 h 3, the keyboard of Michael Schmitz
<MSchmitz@lbl.gov> wrote:
> In this case, I vote for 'terrible mess'. It's probably the explanation for
> some of my master2files problems, too. Someone built apt with the wrong libs
> in place I guess.
Do you mean that the dependencies of one package can be different among
different architectures? (Apparently yes, according to the Packages file.)
This is a real problem...
> Goes to prove that master needs to be generated from the corresponding
> arch's
> Packages, right?
Correct.
> > http://www.debian.org/Packages/frozen/admin/apt.html
>
> Yep, that's all very nice, but look at the m68k packages file, that's the
> one I have to wrestle with :-)
Yes, I've checked. I give in. I break my computer and I go to a desert island
in the Pacific.
OK, the best workaround is probably to use the new slice mechanism:
libstdc++2.8: Tasks: C, Gui_devel, Sgml, Standard, Tex, Web, X_comp, [M68K:
Basic :M68K] ...
Patch master for the other problems and send me the result (or commit yourself
with a proper log message).
> Same story, I bet. Someone should go over all arch's dependencies and jot up
> those packages that dont' match (wonder if one of James' miracle scripts
> does
> just that already?).
I think that the proper solution would be to rebuild these packages... Otherwise, calling all the versions of slink by the same name would be a liar, if they don't have the same dependencies on several platforms.
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