Re: stats for pure64 vs. gcc-3.4
Just asking... where can i learn about all this gcc-3.4 vs pure64 stuff? I
read the debian-amd64-howto and installed my system, but never heard about
this two-branches stuff....
thx in advance,
Rafael Rodríguez
El Viernes, 12 de Noviembre de 2004 23:32, Kurt Roeckx escribió:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 02:09:30PM -0800, kristian kvilekval wrote:
> > Are there any online stats or recommendations
> > when to use pure64 vs. gcc-3.4 repositories?
> >
> > I've noticed that some pure64 missing applications (evolution2)
> > are showing up in the gcc-3.4.
>
> evolution 2.0.2-3 is in pure64 since today. The reason this
> took longer to get in pure64 than gcc-3.4 is that I (pure64)
> always wait for "upstream debian" to fix it in sid. It was
> waiting for evolution-data-server which was fixed in yesterdays
> upload which made building evolution (and a few other related)
> package possible today. I'm trying to get the difference between
> upstream sources and ours as small as possible.
>
> The gcc-3.4 archive on the other hand applies many more patches
> itself, basicly because it has to. There are alot of packages
> that fail to build using gcc-3.4, and upstream debian isn't
> always that fast with applying patches.
>
> For the stats part. They just started their daily build cycle,
> so I don't know the result of what is going to be installed when
> they're done, but here are the currents stats for both archives:
>
> There are stats available in the "amd64.txt" file and in the
> "dists/sid" version of each archive.
>
> Pure64:
> Installed : 5531 ()
> Installed+all : 8466 ()
> Needs-Build : 43
> Building : 1 ()
> Uploaded : 16 ()
> Failed : 120
> Dep-Wait : 69 ()
> Failed-Removed : 0
> Dep-Wait-Removed: 0
> Not-For-Us : 94
> total : 5675
> total+all : 8715
>
> gcc-3.4:
> Installed : 5600 ()
> Installed+all : 8606 ()
> Needs-Build : 64
> Building : 0 ()
> Uploaded : 0 ()
> Failed : 99
> Dep-Wait : 24 ()
> Failed-Removed : 0
> Dep-Wait-Removed: 0
> Not-For-Us : 67
> total : 5747
> total+all : 8794
>
>
> Now, the most interesting part is why are they different?
>
> The first thing you'll notice is that gcc-3.4 seems to have 69
> pakcakges more installed. And 71 arch all packages more
> installed, having a total of 140 packages more installed.
>
> The arch all package all seem to be related to java. I don't
> know if kaffe works on the gcc-3.4 archive, but there are
> currently problems with it on i386 and pure64.
>
> The other are mostly packages that just fail to build and have a
> patch available in the bug tracking system, but isn't uploaded
> yet.
>
> Then there are some packages that shouldn't be build on amd64 in
> the first place. For instance there are mono (C#) and ada
> pacakges in the gcc-3.4 archive for which upstream says amd64 is
> not supported.
>
>
> Kurt
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