Re: Upgrade.tar available (was Re: [dark: READ!] CD images)

2000-05-23 Thread Ben Collins
> c) only i386 still makes it useless since we're releasing for *six* >architectures. Sparc does not want, nor need this overhead since we don't have the problems that require it's use. Further more, a static dpkg/apt compiled on potato has the potential to not even run on a slink system, if i

Re: Upgrade.tar available (was Re: [dark: READ!] CD images)

2000-05-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously J.A. Bezemer wrote: > Well, it has taken some time because nobody felt like recompiling i386 > apt/dpkg, but things are finally ready. Oh come on! a) As dpkg maintainer I never got a request to rebuild it b) As far as I know the release manager never agreed that this was going to be

Upgrade.tar available (was Re: [dark: READ!] CD images)

2000-05-23 Thread J.A. Bezemer
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 04:49:54PM +0200, J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > Okay. Will a developer-signed "fake" .changes file with md5sum of the > > upgrade-all.tar do? Does it have to be placed in Incoming (on ftp-master I > > guess) or can you just fetch it