Re: New package system design draft
On 14 Jul 1999, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote:
Yet another solution for achieving maximum sharing without links is
to
factor the architecture-specific portions of a larger packages into
packages of their own. This makes sense for staging reasons as well.
Stick the architecture-independent bit into a shared package
hierarchy, and the architecture-specific bit into one conditionalized
on architecture.
Foo.noarch, Foo.ppc, Foo.i386, Foo.solaris. That sounds interesting.
That also addresses the issue where I only have ppc, and I only want/need
to install ppc+noarch. Or, globally share noarch, but arch-specific ppc
and solaris sitting on two different NFS volumes, or locally.
-Justin
vallon(a)mindspring.com