Roger Leigh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Olaf van der Spek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 6/27/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (and thusly /usr/bin) between architectures. You can with /usr/share, as > >> it is architecture independent. > > > > I guess the tools aren't capable of this, but AFAIK you could just do > > (manually) something like /usr/i386/bin and /usr/ppc/bin
This is a bit more complicated than a simpt dpkg -i, and far more difficult to remove. > The whole cpu-manfr-opsys triplet would be better. If you wanted to go that route, and you had spare room on the filer, you could effectively do chroots of entire systems. /vol/redhat-advanced-server-x86 /vol/debian-sarge-i386 /vol/debian-sarge-ppc /vol/ubuntu-hoary-ppc Or whatever scheme you want to use. -- John H. Robinson, IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] http (((( WARNING: I cannot be held responsible for the above, sbih.org ( )(:[ as apparently my cats have learned how to type. spiders.html (((( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]