On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, 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?
Hi David, if I understand correctly, all you need to do is set "Architecture: all" in your debian/control file and then declare a dependency on an appropriate interpreter. This is what many Perl-based packages do. In this case, I suppose you'll have a dependency on a JVM package. > ..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 .. ? When you upload, the package won't be built on the other architectures and will only be stored once in the archive. The .deb will be something like: libmath-currency-perl_0.09-1_all.deb Don't be alarmed by the fact that the changes files references an architecture in it's name; this is simply an indication of the platform on which the package was built. E.g.: libmath-currency-perl_0.09-1_i386.changes Hope that helps, tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] | An ounce of perception, http://www.debian.org | a pound of obscure... | (Peart) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]