incoming: dependency warnings

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Jul 2 12:44:22 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 08:37 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> Eg - yaboot is ppc32 only - as OF only supports booting 32bit ELF
> IIRC. 
> 
> ppc64-utils requires yaboot
> ppc64-utils in the ppc64 tree has a broken dep
> 
> Therefore in the ppc64 only tree which doesn't have any biarch magic
> ppc64-utils will always be seen as broken.

Ah, I understand. But doesn't that mean the ppc64 compose isn't
bootable? I haven't tried it, but I thought it should give a fully
64-bit system. 

Should we do the same (evil) trick as we do with memtest86 on x86_64 --
build a 64-bit package which actually contains 32-bit binaries?

-- 
dwmw2




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