On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 01:18:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > There is only one thing that DAK might want to adapt to. For most > multiarch architectures there is a definite main architecture that > most things should be in and then some corner cases where different > architetcure might be prefered or required. Usualy because 32bit mode > has smaller code and is faster than 64bit mode but sometimes the > larger addresss space of 64bit mode is required.
> So there might be a need to introduce partial architectures for ppc64, > mips64, mips64el, sparc64 that only carry a small subset of > Debian. The change would be in policy to allow architecture that are > partial and maybe some code to reject unwanted packages from those > architectures. + s390x I would encourage people interested in these architectures to work on developing such a policy, building on top of the current multiarch spec. This isn't critical-path for delivering an initial multiarch implementation for squeeze, but I see no reason that it couldn't be worked on in parallel. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
