On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:53:58PM +0000, David H. Askew wrote: > I am building some unofficial(for now) debs for jedit... and have > completed building them for the x86 arch .. and I got to thinking of > something... is it possible to build debs without a dependent arch? > > ..since jedit is written in java ... its technically platform > independent ... is it possible to produce debs that will install on any > platform? and if so .. what should I read? > > .. if not ... Is it the infrastructure, by the way its setup via > porters, that make this impossible .. ? > > > ...Dave
You set Architecture: all rather than Architecture: any in the control file and upload the debs. This is used on a lot of things, actually, at least for packages which are mainly documentation, or have <foo>-common which is shared-between-arches stuff. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
