On Thursday 03 April 2003 09:13, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:45:07AM +0200, Paul Russell wrote: > > * Package name : qemu > > Version : 0.14 > > Upstream Author : Fabrice Bellard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://www.some.org/ > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ seems to be a better URL than the > "So Others Might Eat" program for Washington, D.C.
Thanks, will fix that in final description. > Do you have any idea how users will install i386 programs (like wine) > on their powerpc boxes? (Presumably it's a similar issue to running i386 > packages on ia64, which doesn't even need a processor emulator) I've been working with the author to ensure that non-modified glibc etc can work. That is done (as of 0.16). One option is to do this installation entirely under /usr/gnemul/qemu-i386/, but that doesn't scale (because having a huge number of files here will slow qemu's start time to a crawl). The second option is to use the "if package of same name installed on native system, install it in /usr/gnemul/qemu-i386/, otherwise install in root". I think that a dpkg wrapper, which cuts in when the package being operated on is called "xxx-i386", and mangles non-native debs into that name, might work in the short term. Eventually, "apt-get -mi386 install wine" would be nice, but that may be a while 8) -- Thankyou for your mail.