Re: Proposal: Adding more architecture options to dpkg (was: Re: Adding Hurd architecture/os to dpkg and packaging scripts.)
- To: Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>
- Cc: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk
- Subject: Re: Proposal: Adding more architecture options to dpkg (was: Re: Adding Hurd architecture/os to dpkg and packaging scripts.)
- From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:17:24 -0800
- Message-id: <[🔎] 19990106131724.K26948@kitenet.net>
- Mail-followup-to: Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu>, Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] m9bemp85s7l.fsf@fatneck.cse.msu.edu>; from Steve Dunham on Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 10:36:14AM -0500
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Steve Dunham wrote:
> When you make these changes to dpkg, try to find a way to deal with
> platforms that handle two different architectures. (e.g. UltraSparc
> machines handle sparc and sparc64, intel machines handle i386 and the
> proposed i586 distributions.) It would be nice to build and install
> packages for both architectures on these machines.
>
> I have "sparc" Debian installed on my Ultra5, and successfully compile
> packages for the "sparc" architecture - in fact, the tools to build
> userland code for "sparc64" are not ready and will not be ready for
> quite a while. (And, even then, we'd probably want a mixture of
> packages to guarantee system stability.)
I have a patch to dpkg that does this. I think I submitted it as a wishlist
bug. It makes dpkg read a new file, /etc/dpkg/architectures, which has a
format like:
i386: i386 all pentium
ultrapsparc: sparc all sparc64
--
see shy jo
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