Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:51:51PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > Well, potato is GLIBC 2.1. You don't really need to support anything else, > > so only two packages (686-optimised and non-optimised). > > > > Note that the gnulibc1 is NOT for libc2.0 as you have above -- it is > > for libc5. I

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 09:51:51PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > I haven't upgraded to potato either. Is there a machine that is > running potato that developers could use to test glibc 2.1 related > packages? I'm not sure. I thought master would be running potato (since Branden uses it to build

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:25:28AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:42PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 : for libc2.1 > > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1 : for libc2.0 > > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static : static 2.0 >

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 05:52:42PM -0400, Gopal Narayanan wrote: > i386-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 : for libc2.1 > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1 : for libc2.0 > i386-pc-linux-gnulibc1-static: static 2.0 > i686-pc-linux-gnu-gnulibc2.1 : 686-optimized for 2.1 > i686-pc-linux-gnu

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-26 Thread Gopal Narayanan
On Sun, Jul 25, 1999 at 10:04:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Gopal Narayanan writes: > > Based on this, it seems to me that I should make 5 separate wrapper > > packages, and force dependencies accordingly. Am I right? > > How about a single package with a postinst that figures out what binary t

Re: Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-26 Thread John Hasler
Gopal Narayanan writes: > Based on this, it seems to me that I should make 5 separate wrapper > packages, and force dependencies accordingly. Am I right? How about a single package with a postinst that figures out what binary the user needs and tells him what to get and how to get it? If you are

Multiple binaries => multiple packages ?

1999-07-25 Thread Gopal Narayanan
I am packaging an install wrapper for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] client. It will go in the contrib/misc section. One of the conditions of the copyright is that the user has to download the tarball that contains the binaries directly from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] official webpage (http://setiathome.ssl.ber