XXI century and still using 386 packages...

[Xan]

Dimarts 19 Abril 2005 22:26, en/na goofrider (<goofrider 
<dlist at ubuntuforums.org>>) va escriure:
>>Re: XXI century and still using 386 packages...
>
> 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.
>

Well. It's was only a idea from a desktop user with best intentions....

Regards,
Xan.
>
> --
> goofrider