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On 5/24/07, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 24 May 2007 17:51:09 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: |
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> > You can probably share all of them, but just realize the distfiles for |
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> > x86 won't be usable for amd64 and vice-versa (unless you're going to |
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> > use an x86 distfile on the amd64 because there isn't an amd64 version |
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> > available). |
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> Of course they will, because they contains source code. Of course, |
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> sometimes there will be different versions of a package marked stable in |
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> x86 and amd64, and some patch files are arch-specific, but generally most |
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> packages use the same source files whatever the architecture. I use a |
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> shared $DISTDIR for x86, ~x86, ~amd64 and ~ppc systems. |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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> Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites? |
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Yeah, you're right. Now that I re-read it, I realized I was thinking, for |
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some odd reason, that he was talking about the kernel. |
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- Mark Shields |