Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:58:31PM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > First, including each architecture and source in every .deb suddenly > balloons our 3 CD set to get i386 binaries to a ~15 CD set. It also > kills non-broadband net upgrades (you *really* want to download six > copies of emacs plus all its source?). I'm not sure how you'd build > such a .deb either, without having personal access to machines of every > supported arch.
My suggestion was that packages would look like this on the ftp server: dists/unstable/main/admin/at/ instead of: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/at_3.1.8-10.deb But that is a bit dumb, so forget it, have it looking like this: dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/admin/at/ and: dists/unstable/main/binary-all/admin/at/ Maybe stick some symlinks in binary-i386 for the man pages in binary-all. If you keep everything in a single .deb that means that there are multiple copies of the man pages. On a machine with 8 archs, that is 8 copies of the man page you are storing. -- Don't worry -- shop.