Re: kernel depends?
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Actually, you do need bin86 for i386 kernels; one of the standard
> questions I see on comp.os.linux.setup is "help, it says it can't find
> as86 and I don't know why". kernel-source-* packages do suggest bin86 -
> I imagine that they don't have hard dependencies on them because they're
> Architecture: all. Making them architecture-specific would take up
> significantly more space in the archives.
Isn't there a way to specify architecture-specific dependencies on
architecture-neutral packages? I seem to remember seeing some Depends: lines
come through here that had different dependencies for hurd than for linux.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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