On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:35:44PM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:21:46PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:07:12PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > > > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > >> magicdev | g-v-m [!powerpc], g-v-m | magicdev [powerpc] allowed ? > > > > > > > > > > It is for build-depends, but not for plain depends. If you need that, > > > > > you need to generate your depends header at build time, and need > > > > > arch:any packages instead of arch:all ones (which isn't impossible, > > > > > although quite ugly). > > > > > > > > It seems to me that you might be able to use type-handling in this > > > > situation. > > > > > > meta-gnome2 only has Arch: all packages, so type-handling is not > > > applicable for this problem, AFAICT. > > > > What about a arch: powerpc packages names meta-gnome2-2.6, which would > > provide > > meta-gnome2 and be the twin of meta-gnome2, except it would use g-v-m first, > > and maybe other 2.6 only stuff later on ? Not sure if udev is pulled in by > > g-v-m also, or not. > > Yes, g-v-m will pull in hal and udev. The whole chain depends on a 2.6 kernel.
It could probably be arch: all too, and tasksel modified to check for a 2.6 kernel, and install it instead of m-g2 in case a 2.6 kernel is detected. Friendly, Sven Luther
