Re: pentium specific packages
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
>
> > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until
> > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the
> > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386.
>
> it's the obvious way... create another architecture tree, binary-i586
> (gosh, that going to hit hard on the mirror eventually. Time to get yet
> another harddisk for the Debian mirror ;) It's just a minor (I hope)
> modification to dpkg:
I agree with Andreas that symlinks are unnecessary. We really need a way of
keeping the control file the same (apart from Architecture:) and telling
dpkg to take packages from the binary-i586 directory if they exist. I don't
know the internals of dpkg/dselect/deity at all - how workable is this?
> $ dpkg --print-architecture
> i386
> $ dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture
> i486
> $ dpkg --print-installation-architecture
> i386
>
> > Is there an easy way to do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work
> > with the ecgs compiled packages, maybe i586 is better than pent.)
>
> I think it should be i586, although I'm not clear if ecgs supports Kx et
> al. It should...
I don't think i486 is neccessary - does anyone else - AFAIK, there is no
compiler-time benefit worth obtaining.
Adrian
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