Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:37:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Well, depends on how strict you want that parsing to be: > > grep -q '^flags.*\' /proc/cpuinfo && echo "SSE2 possible" > > This is good enough on i686 and x86-64, as the architecture itself does not > tolerate any diff

Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-16 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:37:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > You might want to pop up a preinst debconf notice which tells the admin > > > that the package will not run here (with an option to fail the install > > > if it's an honest mistake). > > This may require reimplementi

Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > You might want to pop up a preinst debconf notice which tells the admin > > that the package will not run here (with an option to fail the install > > if it's an honest mistake). >

Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-16 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:02:24PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > You might want to pop up a preinst debconf notice which tells the admin > that the package will not run here (with an option to fail the install > if it's an honest mistake). This may require reimplementing some part of the program

Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-16 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrey Rahmatullin: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 09:28:45PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > The package "ikarus", another programming language implementation, > > also requires SSE2 support. > > There is a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if > > sse2 is unavailable. >