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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:30:26 +0100 |
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Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@g.o> wrote: |
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> Doug Goldstein schrieb: |
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> > I need to be able to have ppc/arm/etc users install a package that can |
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> > only be built on x86/amd64. The packages in question are |
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> > sys-apps/seabios and sys-apps/vgabios. The point is that a PPC machine |
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> > that's using qemu-system-x86_64 still needs to use seabios and |
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> > vgabios. I was planning on building the package on my own hardware and |
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> > posting up sys-apps/seabios-bin and sys-apps/vgabios-bin unless of |
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> > course someone has a better suggestion. |
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> Possibly a USE flag could be added to seabios/vgabios, similar to the |
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> "fontforge" flag in font packages, enabled by default and masked in |
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> profiles that don't support building from source. |
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+1 |
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It's the simplest thing to maintain. It eases binary package creation |
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and does not need any blockers, virtuals or conditional depends. |
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You just patch an ebuild, run `emerge --buildkpgonly seabios` |
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and package is ready. All in one place. |
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Sergei |
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