On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 07:53:19PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > For another perspective, think about the ongoing work to support other > kernels than Linux. Presently, promising work is apparently being done > on both Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/FreeBSD kernels. There are > already packages that are Linux-kernel-specific and they will need > support in the package management system to depend on > "kernel-image-linux" or something more specific like > "kernel-image-linux-2.6". (One may assume that "kernel-image", > representing any kernel, is an essential package, always installed.) So > it's not just about different versions of Linux, it's about different > kernels altogether. And there should be a way to specify such > dependencies on the package management system level.
Those other kernels dpkg arch aren't "i386", they will be one of the following: darwin-i386 freebsd-i386 hurd-i386 kfreebsd-i386 netbsd-i386 knetbsd-i386 openbsd-i386 So they don't need depends on a kernel either, they just need their arch line to be set for the proper archs they support. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
