Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: Alphas and libc dependencies"): ... > In addition to my last message, here is an alternative I've just though > of. Why don't we just provide dummy (eg empty) libc5, libdb1 etc > packages, and let libc6 depend on them. Then li

Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes ("Re: Alphas and libc dependencies"): > You (Ian Jackson) wrote: ... > > 2a. Give the package containing our version of glibc version 0 the > > name libc5. 2b. Implement version numbers for virtual packages so > > that we can use one

Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > All our (ELF i386 and m68k binary) packages are built to build with a > dependency on `libc5'. > > The Alpha people are not using the standard Linux libc; instead, > they're using a version of the GNU libc, with a current major number > of 0 by the looks of things. In a

Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Ian Jackson) wrote: > All our (ELF i386 and m68k binary) packages are built to build with a > dependency on `libc5'. > > The Alpha people are not using the standard Linux libc; instead, > they're using a version of the GNU libc, with a current major number > of 0 by the looks of things. No,