Dagobert Michelsen wrote on 28.09.2009 21:16: > Am 28.09.2009 um 21:12 schrieb Sebastian Kayser: >> pkgutil was placed straight at the mirror root a while ago to >> facilitate >> downloading, but it doesn't seem to get updates. The version floating >> around [1,2] is 1.5, most recent pkgutil is 1.7. Could this please be >> fixed (and be kept in sync in the future pleeeaase :). >> >> Furthermore, could pkgutil be made an ARCH=all package, so that >> there is >> just _one_ direct link that one can point new users to and not a >> platform specific one (i know about uname -p, still it just makes >> things >> more straightforward)? >> >> I see, the package contains a wget which is platform specific. >> Couldn't >> we just include two wgets (wget.i386, wget.sparc)? From what i >> remember, >> that is the same approach Sun uses for its explorer package. > > This was Peters intent, but Phil argued strongly against having > ARCHALL=1 > packages with arch-specific binaries. See the thread for details: > <http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2008-November/000089.html > >
Wow, that's a huge discussion. I couldn't resist thinking about our motto (while reading): "to provide a straightforward, easy-to-use experience for the user" pkgutil is one out of two possible packages of ours that a user comes across first. While i see that there is a need to decide about what should be an ARCH=all package, i don't really see the need to make an example of pkgutil (considering that one could argue both ways). :/ Sebastian _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
