On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 02:49:00 +1000 Steve Kowalik <stevenk@hasnolife.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:14:22PM +0200, Mart van de Wege uttered: > > Sorry to butt in in this thread, but my question seems to belong here > as > > well. I noticed yesterday that installing kernel-package on i386 does > not > > install bin86, which is necessary to build the boot code. Now I know > Joost > > is going to say that I should have used dselect :), but I think that > bin86 > > would be a required dependecy on i386 then, wouldn't it? Or does > Debian > > use the same dependencies across all architectures? > > Time to file a bug report? > No. It's _supposed_ to be like that. bin86 is only required on i386, and > there > isn't a way of making depends arch dependant. > Ah, Ok. Much clearer now. I knew about the bin86 dependency, so I installed it as a matter of course. Just curious after a long day of rebuilding my laptop. OT: Note to buyers of a second hand laptop: buy a new HD to go with it. The old one might be near the end of it's lifetime, I just had to partition off 2G because of bad blocks. Mart -- Baby even the losers get lucky sometimes Even the losers keep a little bit of pride Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers
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