XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[Xan]

Dimecres 13 Abril 2005 14:50, en/na Daniel Stone (<Daniel Stone 
<daniel at fooishbar.org>>) va escriure:
>>Re: XXI century and still using 386 packages...
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:41PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> > Perhaps it were good thing to have both types of packages: for every
> > program, build i386, i486, i586 and i686 packages. Does it suppose so
> > amount of work to do that?. These subarchitectures are similar, so the
> > packages have to be more similar. So I think (correct me if I'm wrong)
> > that the maintain of these four subarch's is much easy than maintain a
> > new arch.
>
> If we did this, and all our packages got built for each architecture,
> the archive would suddenly be a few hundred gigabytes.

Oooops!. I did not think about it. And if you save only diff files in the 
server and ubuntu justs downloads i386 package + diff and builds the y86 (y > 
3) package (binary) in the computer. Or in analog way, server could build a 
y86 (with diff and i386) when some user request?

Perhaps it solves the problem?

Regards,
Xan.