On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:36:26 +0100, Antony wrote in message <201806201636.26513.antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it>:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2018 at 16:27:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:21:21 +0200, Adam wrote in message > > > > <20180620102121.flczbaznhl3mh...@angband.pl>: > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:09:12AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: > > > > El 20/06/18 a las 02:16, Ozi Traveller escribió: > > > > > Are the 32bit images 586 or 686? > > > > > > > > > > I think the Jessie images were 586. > > > > > > > > linux-4.9.x is built in 686 and 686-pae > > > > > > And more importantly, userland packages are built using 686 > > > instructions. Replacing or using an old kernel is trivial, > > > rebuilding the world is not. > > > > ..i386, i486 or i586 kernels can now chew i686 userland? > > I could believe it can build them from source. > > No, I think Adam's point was that if you have a 686 kernel on a 386 > machine, replacing it for a 386 kernel is easy (relatively speaking), > but if you have the complete system binaries and libraries built for > 686 on a 386 machine, replacing that lot is basically a re-install. ..true, and can easily be neccessary for people stuck with their old rig after their new rig dies deep in the jungle, at sea etc without easy access to replacement hardware. > > ..do we have "world rebuilder" software or scripts that can find > > "wrong arch userland", fetch its source package, "rebuild this > > part of the world" and install it, and optionally upload it to > > "a community upload mirror site"? Might help speed up things... > > I think if anyone runs into the problem that they've installed a 686 > binary or library onto a 386 machine, they'll have installed > hundreds, so the machine is unlikely to be able to claw its own way > out of the hole. ..true, the proper way would be put the claw-yer-way-outta-that-hole script on a rescue image with all arch kernels and debootstraps. > Better to try having a check in the installer to say "the > architecture you selected will not run on this hardware - do yoou > really want to continue?" (which you might do, for example, if you're > installing a system onto a disk which is going to go into another > machine...) ...or porting things to a new or an unsupported architecture. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
