On 10/1/09 6:29 AM, "Dan Horák" <[email protected]> wrote:

> David Boyes píše v St 30. 09. 2009 v 09:28 -0400:

>> Packaging error, IMHO. Bochs-bios is the Intel BIOS image that the emulator
>> is supposed to load to provide a normal Intel environment. I think it should
>> be a noarch package since it is not actually executed by the base system,
>> but by the emulator.
> 
> The issue is the lack of 32bit cross-compiler $buildarch-to-i386 in
> Fedora to be able to build the 32-bit BIOS during the build of the bochs
> binary package. The 16-bit version is built with bcc/as86 from dev86 and
> dev86 exists even on s390x and ppc/ppc64.

Then I'd suggest moving that source to a bochs-bios-dev package and limit
that to Intel only. The images in bochs-bios does not need to be rebuilt in
order to be usable on non-Intel systems.

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