On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:36:19 +0100 Simon Richter <s...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Leif, > > On 11.12.2014 19:08, Leif Lindholm wrote: > > > If we could transition this to be able to specify efi-all (or > > whatever) instead of an explicit list of certain architectures, this > > would be a lot more straightforward operation. > > > Would this be useful, desirable, an accident waiting to happen? > > Useful, possibly, but there is no mechanism that could be used or > recycled for that, so it would be an entirely new mechanism in the > package management framework, with a fairly limited use case. There is an accepted mechanism: linux-any is a group of architectures which have one set of packages in common and we have had others. efi-any would seem to be entirely possible without implementing something completely new. It would need dpkg and buildd support. With linux-any it relies on a list of architectures in a table in dpkg - the same could be done for other groups. The mechanisms exist, the question is how many other variants would be created by adopting this? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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