Re: kernel depends?
On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:39:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Jan Martin Mathiassen writes:
> > i know *now* that i could've just done dpkg -S as86 to find out what
> > package it needed, and i *know* we're not supposed to cater to *complete*
> > idiots, but some consistency with regards to dpkg should be expected.
>
> The problem is that kernel compilation requires different things on
> different architectures: as86 only makes sense on x86, for example. Maybe
> we need conditional dependencies?
I experienced the problem when building the kernel sources using
make-kpkg. As a workaround, we could make kernel-package architecture
specific, and have it depend on bin86 on i386. Of course this
is an ugly hack, but it would solve an ugly problem.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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