RE: removing architecture dependencies
> >> The xml for individual packages occasionally
> >> contains architecture dependencies. It would
> >> be nice to abstract these out to the extent
> >> possible - perhaps to definitions in
> >> entities/packages?
> >
> > Yes!, I think that is the way to go.
>
> definately, although it does not help us with things like
> bin86 which ia32
> needs but none of the other arches do.
There are going to need to be some ways to handle
architecture specifics beyond what I mentioned above.
For example, before an Itanium kernel tree can be used for
anything (including, I think, generating the headers),
a rather massive ia64-specific patch has to be applied.
I don't hear any noises that that's going to change, they're
still generating such patches for 2.5.18 or whatever
that line is up to.
I guess one approach might be to have some of the
files presented as foo.xml.in and munched into the
right form for the target processor by the
configure script. I gather conditional code is
not an option :-)
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