Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.

1999-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 11:05:08AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On 7 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > I am fairly convinced that this should be a stand alone > > program, and not built into dpkg. dpkg knows enough to function as it > > should, and we should not overload dpkg wit

Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.

1999-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 03:40:13AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > A lot of this proposal seems to be about providing the rules > file a means of determining the details of OS/CPU of the build and > target system to aid in cross compilations. It deals specifically > with the distinct

Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.

1999-01-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On 7 Jan 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am fairly convinced that this should be a stand alone > program, and not built into dpkg. dpkg knows enough to function as it > should, and we should not overload dpkg with yet another I agree. A nice simple package with a short C program would

Re: DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.

1999-01-07 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, A lot of this proposal seems to be about providing the rules file a means of determining the details of OS/CPU of the build and target system to aid in cross compilations. It deals specifically with the distinct parts that make up a string that GNU builds use to distinguish target

DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg.

1999-01-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
[ note that this is CC to debian-devel, because it originated there. follow up's to debian-policy(?) ] DRAFT: Fixing the architecture query options of dpkg, Version 0.1 = Abstract: I hope that we can make it easier and clearer how