On Thursday 23 October 2008 23:49:52 Martin Meredith wrote: > The licencing of rar doesn't really allow for us to do this. > > The licencing clearly states :- > > 5. The RAR/WinRAR unlicensed trial version may be freely distributed, > with exceptions noted below, provided the distribution package is > not modified in any way. > > This means that we cannot redistribute the x64 version alongside the > i386 version without using a separate orig.tar.gz for that version, > which I'm not too sure the archive/etc would eb able to cope with having > two different source packages build the same binary for different > architectures. > > To be honest, I personally would rather leave it as it is, rather than > making what I see as kludgy changes to accomodate something that is > likely to be more unstable, and also, for myself, currently, untestable. > > I've consulted with the ftp-master team regarding whether the 2 source > names one binary name is possible, and am awaiting a reply, though even > if it is, I'm going to be wary doing this.
Why don't redistribute a TAR archive with the two original 32 and 64 bit TARs in it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
