Re: new port

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:

> Previously Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > That's why I suggest using symlinks. There are three places in the archive
> > where an architecture's name is mentioned:
> 
> It's still a lot of work

Not really, unless debian-installer is a fairly complex piece of software 
(didn't look at it yet)

> for very little gain. At some point we
> will probably need to forget about the binary-<arch> idea anyway.
> It does not scale if you get a lot of <arch>-<os> combinations
> and packages which work on various subsets of the possible permutations
> of those.

What would be your alternative?

AFAICS, packages that run on various kernel-cpu combinations only happen
in cases like "FreeBSD can run Linux binaries" and likewise things. For
the rest, it depends on your particular kernel/cpu combination to find out
what binaries you can run.

Or should we just provide sources and make sure they compile? ;-)

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