On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 07:50:50PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > 3. makedev MUST be something else than binary-all. It should be > > binary-all-linux, but that is not implemented in our packaging system. It > > should be. This requires some global effort and some lobbying for this > > feature. It could list all linu arches and become binary-any, which is lame. > > Then hurd doesn't need to conflict with makedev and a dummy package would > > work even when dpkg isn't fixed. > > 3.5. Make makedev Arch: any, and modify it so that under hurd-i386 the > package does nothing (i.e. it is really a dummy package). It has an > Installed-Size: of 72Kb. Even if we multiply this by the number of > architectures, I think we can live with that (we already live with an > "Arch: any" base-files, which is not a large package either).
This is a kludge which will work for makedev, but that's all. What about linux kernel-source packages, which clutter our archive, and I haven't even attempted to make a full list. What about a hurd-doc package? I have a different work around for this planned. I will make the hurd package conflict: makedev (< 9:999), and have a makedev dummy package in the alpha.gnu.org archive. That will work for now, keeping the place of kludging small. Thanks, Marcus
