Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 02:17 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, 25 Dec 2005, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > >> >> > debs are created by debian/rules. So, only dependencies of dpkg would >> >> > have to >> >> > be modified. >> >> >> >> I was talking about the hypothetical situation of dpkg defaulting to >> >> !gzip compression and adding a Pre-Depends to the dpkg version >> >> required for unpacking. The buildd would have to override that for >> >> core packages. >> > >> > No, the packages themselves would include such logic in their debian/rules. >> > There's no way we'd want to keep buildds in sync with what the set of core >> > packages is. >> >> That would realy defeat the purpose of not having to modify every deb. > > Why not "just" modify them the next time they are scheduled to be > built from source? > > It occurs to me, though: while adding a {g|b}zip stage to the i386, > amd64, ppc, ia64, etc build wouldn't be noticed that much by 2GHz > CPUs, it *would* be noticed by 40MHz 68Ks. Is there a way to make > the compression conditional on the CPU?
On that note, we should make amd64 use bzip2 or similar before anythinng else is added to the archive. :)))) MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]