Le mar. 16 août 2022 à 13:22, Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org> a écrit : > > >>>>> "Bastien" == Bastien Roucariès <ro...@debian.org> writes: > Bastien> I will like to stress that this kind of stuff is bad: > Bastien> > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isa-support/-/blob/master/debian/altivec- > Bastien> support.preinst.in#L10 > > How would you do better in that instance? > I think everyone knows it's bad, but I'm guessing that the maintainer > didn't have a better approach for detecting whether the referenced > instructions worked on the installed system. > > I'm assuming that if feature tests in /proc/cpuinfo were sufficient they > would have been used.
No the problem is not probing the cpu/cpuinfo... The problem is the base64 encoded binary. I ma solving this by pre-depends on a binary package and run the binary from the preinstalled package. > > --Sam
