On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 03:06:51PM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux >> <li...@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 10:45:42AM +0000, Dave Martin wrote: >> >> Yes-- though I didn't elaborate on it. You need a packager that can >> >> understand, say, that a binary built for ARMv5 EABI can interoperate >> >> with ARMv7 binaries etc. >> >> Again, I've heard it suggested that RPM can handle this, but I haven't >> >> looked at it in detail myself. >> > >> > That is indeed the case - as on x86, it used to be common to build the >> > majority of the distribution for i386, and glibc and a few other bits >> > for a range of ix86 CPUs. >> > >> > rpm and yum know that i386 is compatible with i486, which is compatible >> > with i586 etc, so it will install an i386 package on i686 if no i486, >> > i586 or i686 package is available. >> > >> > It does the same for ARM with ARMv3, ARMv4 etc. >> >> That sounds plausible. > > That sounds like doubt. > > I've used rpm extensively over the last 10 years or so, both on x86 and > ARM. I've built many versions of Red Hat and Fedora for ARM. My ARM > machines here (including the one which is going to send this email) run > the result of that - and is currently a mixture of ARMv3 and ARMv4 > Fedora packages.
Only doubt in the sense that I don't have experience with it myself, but I'm happy to take your word on it since you're more familiar with rpm. Cheers ---Dave _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
