Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> > You might want to pop up a preinst debconf notice which tells the admin
> > that the package will not run here (with an option to fail the install
> > if it's an honest mistake).
> This may require reimplementing some part of the program in shell (in my
> case it's parsing of /proc/cpuinfo, so it's at least possible, but still).
Well, depends on how strict you want that parsing to be:
grep -q '^flags.*\<sse2\>' /proc/cpuinfo && echo "SSE2 possible"
This is good enough on i686 and x86-64, as the architecture itself does not
tolerate any difference in the flags set between processors. Maybe enhance
it a little so that it won't trigger on "^flags_new" or somesuch.
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