On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:25:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:01:00AM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote: > > It's worth mentioning that the pain of such upgrades is considerably > > reduced by the use of a package manager like GODI. It's hardly > > perfect, but it makes such things much easier. > > We already have a package manager, thank you all the same. The user won't see > a thing, but it is a hard thing for us debian package maintainers to rebuild > all packages that are dependent on ocaml on all 11 officially supported debian > architectures, and a bunch of unofficial ones, especially given the fact that > there are many dependencies, and there is at least one day lag in the > dependency chain building, and that some of our architectures are real slow to > build (m68k, mips/mipsel and s390 are the usual blockers, often arm and hppa > too). And so near to the sarge release, it is a real question if we should > forego the 3.08.3 changes or launch such a wide rebuild, which may miss the > freeze/release date anyway, or worse even, may make some important part of the > packages not being in the release at all. Luckily no ocaml package is part of > base/standard, and not affected by the base freeze.
By the way, is m68k/s390/etc. stuff built on m68k/etc. ? Why not cross-compile on fast CPUs ? -- Berke Durak -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
