On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until > > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the > > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. > > it's the obvious way... create another architecture tree, binary-i586 > (gosh, that going to hit hard on the mirror eventually. Time to get yet > another harddisk for the Debian mirror ;) It's just a minor (I hope) > modification to dpkg:
I agree with Andreas that symlinks are unnecessary. We really need a way of keeping the control file the same (apart from Architecture:) and telling dpkg to take packages from the binary-i586 directory if they exist. I don't know the internals of dpkg/dselect/deity at all - how workable is this? > $ dpkg --print-architecture > i386 > $ dpkg --print-gnu-build-architecture > i486 > $ dpkg --print-installation-architecture > i386 > > > Is there an easy way to do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work > > with the ecgs compiled packages, maybe i586 is better than pent.) > > I think it should be i586, although I'm not clear if ecgs supports Kx et > al. It should... I don't think i486 is neccessary - does anyone else - AFAIK, there is no compiler-time benefit worth obtaining. Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Debian Linux - www.debian.org http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett | Because bloated, unstable PGP key available on public key servers | operating systems are from MS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
