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Re: kernel depends?



* David Starner 

| On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:56:50PM +0100, Jan Martin Mathiassen wrote:
| > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 09:23:29AM +0100, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote:
| > > 	bin86 is used only in x86 plataform, or not?
| > > 	It cant depends on kernel-source that is multi plataform.
| > 
| > yes, that's true.
| > 
| > the potential solution here are:
| > 
| > 1) kernel-source-x.x.x-i386/alpha/whatever (bloaty)
| > 2) make apt-get/dpkg support multiple platform .debs. this might be somewhat
| > tricky to implement, but it'd be the ideal solution. then again, there are
| > really only a few packages that *need* this, so it may not be strictly
| > necessary.
| 
| Or 
| 3) add an empty bin86 to every architecture.
| 4) make binutils provide bin86 on non-i386 architectures

How about having a virtual package "kernel-assembler" (since I assume
that ppc, sparc etc needs an assembler as well), and make that package
provided by bin86 and whatever the equivalient package is for other
archs?

-- 

Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.



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