Re: how does binary-amd64 work?

[Egon Willighagen <e.willighagen@science.ru.nl>]

On Friday 21 January 2005 04:26 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:21:46PM +0100, Egon Willighagen wrote:
> > What is the problem here? Isn't the binary-all in the repository good
> > enough? Is there a reason why binary-amd64 should be present too?
>
> The Packages file is architecture specific, and there is no Packages
> file for binary-all, only for the architecture, which then includes
> binary-all packages in its list.  So even if every package is binary-all
> on that site, it still needs a Packages file for each architecture for
> it to be accessible by those.

Ok, so for each architecture, the Packages.gz has to be made separately?

Egon