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Re: ELF migration questions.



Raul Miller writes ("Re: ELF migration questions."):
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> It's easy to check if elf is supported by a module (grep elf
> /proc/modules), it's also easy to check if elf is supported by the
> kernel (run an elf format executable).  It's not quite so easy to test
> if the current kernel supports elf from a script, but it shouldn't be
> hard to make a debian package that consists solely of a trivial binary
> which is compiled for elf.

Right.  However, I don't think this needs to be a separate package,
surely ?  The user will have to have it installed, and it's trivial to
maintain.

We should just decide which package it belongs in - and I'm tempted to
say `dpkg'.

Ian.


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