[csw-maintainers] ARCH=all packages

William Bonnet william at wbonnet.net
Tue Nov 11 17:33:32 CET 2008


Hi James

> Therefore if an isaexec like mechanism is used to invoke wget then it
> meets "this package will work EVERYWHERE".  CSWelipse used to be an
> example of this, from eclipse-3.0-SunOS5.8-all-CSW.pkg.gz:
> /opt/csw/lib/eclipse/eclipse.i386
> /opt/csw/lib/eclipse/eclipse.sparc
> out of an 80MB package.
>   
Yes but it is an old example ;)

Now you have an eclipse common packge which is arch independent, and two 
arch dependent package. The recent version have more than one binary to 
provide.

Cheers,
W.




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