On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:33:09PM +0100, Berke Durak wrote: > 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 ?
As said, we have enough m68k autobuilder to do the work, so why go for more complicated and error-prone setups. As said, during the last transition, it was not really m68k which was the problem. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
