On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 16:58:19 +0000, Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com> wrote: > Follow-up to myself about: > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/215864/running-x86-binaries-on-armv7 > > Running steamcmd:i386 on ARM with qemu-user-static gives a segfault, > but qemu-user works ! \o/ Does it work with binfmt-support? > If there's an other computer running Steam on the LAN; > the data seams to be copied from there ultra-fast. > > Where should this be properly documented ? > > Maybe in some of in steamcmd's man page; > but then all i386-only packages could be documented this way; > & man-page are normally about using software; not installing it. README.Debian would seem to be the natural place for this. Admittedly since none of this is package-specific it shouldn't really go there either, but it's unrealistic to expect all our users to know how to do this. What's the use-case for this? People running games on small ARM boards hooked up to a TV? > I understand a call to "dpkg --add-architecure" must always > be done manually by the administrator; this isn't something > that can be done from an other package post-inst. Yes; but the main issue is technical, you can't run dpkg like that from a package's maintainer scripts. Regards, Stephen
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