Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: Alphas and libc dependencies): You (Ian Jackson) wrote: ... 2a. Give the package containing our version of glibc version 0 the name libc5. 2b. Implement version numbers for virtual packages so that we can use one here. I think 2b should be done

Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes (Re: Alphas and libc dependencies): ... In addition to my last message, here is an alternative I've just though of. Why don't we just provide dummy (eg empty) libc5, libdb1 etc packages, and let libc6 depend on them. Then libc5 etc _will_ be installed.. I think

Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Ian Jackson) wrote: All our (ELF i386 and m68k binary) packages are built to build with a dependency on `libc5'. The Alpha people are not using the standard Linux libc; instead, they're using a version of the GNU libc, with a current major number of 0 by the looks of things. No, at

Re: Alphas and libc dependencies

1996-08-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Ian Jackson) wrote: All our (ELF i386 and m68k binary) packages are built to build with a dependency on `libc5'. The Alpha people are not using the standard Linux libc; instead, they're using a version of the GNU libc, with a current major number of 0 by the looks of things. In