Re: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Riku Voipio
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:27:52AM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > precisely. this is another, (clearer or at least different) way of > stating what i've been advocating. by having such a delta-maintaining > tool, complex sets of deltas can be maintained indefinitely, or in > fact c

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Guillem Jover
[ CCing Matthias, as I'd like your opinion on my proposed solution involving some Debian gcc changes. ] Hi! On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 12:27:30 +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Trying to kick the dust a bit as having the triplet "in the air" is > kind of an unhappy situation for armhf :-) I think it

Cross-upgrading packages with multiarch packages

2011-02-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hello, I'd like to seek feedback about what kind of upgrades dpkg should support with multi-arch packages. dpkg treats foo:native and foo:all like the same package and it's thus possible to upgrade foo_1.0_all to foo_2.0_ and vice-versa. However if you have installed foo_1.0_, you can't upgrade

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Matthias Klose
On 18.02.2011 11:13, Guillem Jover wrote: [ CCing Matthias, as I'd like your opinion on my proposed solution involving some Debian gcc changes. ] The armhf patch for gcc looks ok, however I would like to see this better addressed in Linaro and/or upstream. Yes but x86 goes to the other

dpkg fails on low-memory-hardware

2011-02-18 Thread Martin Klaiber
Hello everybody, this is my first post to this list. Some time ago I wanted to upgrade an old laptop (Toshiba T4900CT, from 1994) from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. Unfortunately dpkg (resp. apt-get or aptitude) was running out of memory. The maximum amount of RAM for this laptop is limited to 40 M

Re: dpkg fails on low-memory-hardware

2011-02-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Martin Klaiber wrote: > Hello everybody, this is my first post to this list. > > Some time ago I wanted to upgrade an old laptop (Toshiba T4900CT, > from 1994) from Debian Etch to Debian Lenny. Unfortunately dpkg > (resp. apt-get or aptitude) was running out of memory. Th

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:30:19PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 18.02.2011 11:13, Guillem Jover wrote: > >[ CCing Matthias, as I'd like your opinion on my proposed solution > > involving some Debian gcc changes. ] > The armhf patch for gcc looks ok, however I would like to see this > better

Re: Cross-upgrading packages with multiarch packages

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:31:18PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I'd like to seek feedback about what kind of upgrades dpkg should support > with multi-arch packages. > dpkg treats foo:native and foo:all like the same package and it's thus > possible to upgrade foo_1.0_all to foo_2.0_ and vice-

Re: Cross-upgrading packages with multiarch packages

2011-02-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Steve Langasek wrote: > So yeah, that seems ok to me, but I guess you're not convinced or you > wouldn't have asked. :) What other way do you see this working? Should > dpkg auto-remove multiarch packages when an upgrade to _all is requested? > That seems very inconsistent wi

Re: Cross-upgrading packages with multiarch packages

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 08:37:05PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Upgrading multiple M-A: same to a single foo_2.0_all should definitely be > forbidden though. But the opposite foo_1.0_all -> M-A: same > foo_2.0_ ? I think the applicable principle here is KISS. You could allow dpkg to upgrade f

Re: Bug#594179: dpkg armhf patch acceptance status?

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Guillem, Thanks for letting us know your thoughts. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:13:11AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > * The assumption that each GNU triplet denotes a different ABI is so > entrenched in the GNU build system, that we have things like the > following all over the place to prop