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RE: Has dpkg been ported



On 22-Dec-98 Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> Has anyone ported dpkg to different architectures?  If so what is involved in
> doing so?  If not... why?

dpkg runs on every hardware that debian suports -- alpha, arm, intel, powerpc,
sparc, m68k.  I feel like I left one out.  Large parts of dpkg use perl so
porting is not a big issue.

dpkg does not run well on non-Debian systems.  There are issues and lots of
code.


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