XXI century and still using 386 packages...

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Xan Wrote: 
> 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.

> 

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Distributing binary diff patches? That's a HORRIBLE idea. I really
don't like the idea of an installation system that relies on modifying
binary executables, there are huge ramifications in terms of securty
risks.


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