Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 21:57:15 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> Subject: Re: linux- ports on amd64 Message-ID: <20050409215715.3d30448e@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <2fd864e05040911286938343a@mail.gmail.com> References: <200504091737.j39Hb6uY023089@aldan.algebra.com> <2fd864e05040911286938343a@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:28:59 -0700, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 9, 2005 10:37 AM, Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > linux_base-8 installed without a hitch, but linux-gtk2 and
> > its dependencies kept complaining about amd64. I had to patch
> > them all with
> >
> > -ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386
> > +ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 amd64
> >
> > and rename distinfo.i386 back into distinfo for the time being.
> > linux-jpeg was a special case, requiring the following patch:
> >
> > -RPM_SET= libjpeg-6b-15.${MACHINE_ARCH}.rpm
> > +RPM_SET= libjpeg-6b-15.${MACHINE_ARCH:S/amd64/i386/}.rpm
> >
> > As a result linux-firefox installed and is usable.
> >
> > Is this problem just an oversight or was there a conscientious
> > decision to limit these ports to i386, when amd64 is also perfectly
> > capable to use them?
> >
> > -mi
>
> This is an issue I'm currently trying to come up with a more systemic
> solution for. It gets uglier once you have system, and compat rpms.
I'm not sure what you mean here. "System" and "compat" rpms???
> Anyone have any thoughts on a "long term" solution for this?
I agree that we need some sort of over-arching approach, rather than a
piecemeal, port-by-port "solution". Of course, there are bound to be
some ports that will prove to be resistant to such a generalized
approach, but hopefully, these will prove to be in the minority.
Maybe something along the lines of a bsd.linux.mk file?
--
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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