Re: kernel depends?
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:08:46AM -0600 , Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> > Actually, you do need bin86 for i386 kernels; one of the standard
> > questions I see on comp.os.linux.setup is "help, it says it can't find
> > as86 and I don't know why". kernel-source-* packages do suggest bin86 -
> > I imagine that they don't have hard dependencies on them because they're
> > Architecture: all. Making them architecture-specific would take up
> > significantly more space in the archives.
>
> Isn't there a way to specify architecture-specific dependencies on
> architecture-neutral packages? I seem to remember seeing some Depends: lines
> come through here that had different dependencies for hurd than for linux.
But it's a binary-$arch package not binary-all package. It has only one
depends line.
Petr Cech
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