Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-11 Thread Christopher C. Chimelis
Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > Ah, on re-reading my first sentence, I think I should have added "in theory" > :-) I agree with your point that having hundreds of symlinks from > binary-i586 to binary-i386 allows us to use the current tools with very > little changes. FYI, we may have the same problem

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-10 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Tue, Dec 09, 1997 at 02:10:35PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > > > it's the obvious way... create another architecture tree, binary-i586 > > > (gosh, that going to hit h

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > it's the obvious way... create another architecture tree, binary-i586 > > (gosh, that going to hit hard on the mirror eventually. Time to get yet > > another harddisk for the Deb

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Dec 07, 1997 at 06:20:27PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until > > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the > > packages from binary-pent

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-08 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. it's the obvious way... create another architecture tr

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until > > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the > > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. Is there an easy way to > > do this? (Also,

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-07 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
> How about a binary-pent directory with symlinks back to binary-i386 until > a package is uploaded. Then we need to tell dselect(ftp) to get the > packages from binary-pent instead of binary-i386. Is there an easy way to > do this? (Also, if pentium clones also work with the ecgs compiled > pac

Re: pentium specific packages

1997-12-07 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > Now that ecgs has ben officially released, maybe it's time to think (again) > about pentium/pro/K6/... specific packages. I think it would be good to have > a section i586 which would contain pentium specific packages. I don't know

pentium specific packages

1997-12-07 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Now that ecgs has ben officially released, maybe it's time to think (again) about pentium/pro/K6/... specific packages. I think it would be good to have a section i586 which would contain pentium specific packages. I don't know how this conflict with the current dpkg* tools (such as d