Re: kernel depends?

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

Why not just use the control file? The control file for the Intel binaries
would declare a dependency on bin86, while those for the other
architectures simply omit that dependency. Putting the correct control
file into the binary package is a simple matter of checking the
architecture being built and acting accordingly.

Luck,

On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, David Starner wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:56:50PM +0100, Jan Martin Mathiassen wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:23:29AM +0100, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
> > > 	bin86 is used only in x86 plataform, or not?
> > > 	It cant depends on kernel-source that is multi plataform.
> > 
> > yes, that's true.
> > 
> > the potential solution here are:
> > 
> > 1) kernel-source-x.x.x-i386/alpha/whatever (bloaty)
> > 2) make apt-get/dpkg support multiple platform .debs. this might be somewhat
> > tricky to implement, but it'd be the ideal solution. then again, there are
> > really only a few packages that *need* this, so it may not be strictly
> > necessary.
> 
> Or 
> 3) add an empty bin86 to every architecture.
> 4) make binutils provide bin86 on non-i386 architectures
> 
> -- 
> David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
> http://dvdeug.dhis.org
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> 

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