On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 07:22:21AM -0600, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>>>> "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.
What if the user change their CPU afterward ? This should probably be tested at boot time instead. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
