pure binary-all in pool-kfreebsd

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Fri Oct 14 09:28:35 UTC 2005


On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:00:51AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:26:37AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > I think we need to have pure binary-all packages available, and
> > particularly in the same pool as kfreebsd-i386 ones are.  The hack to import
> > them from an i386 pool works for apt (with some problems wrt authentication
> > AFAIK), but the following debian utilities don't work at all:
> 
> >   - debian-cd: Needs binary-all available in the same pool as kfreebsd-i386
> >     ones.  Can be easily hacked to use more than one pool, but all them must
> >     be kfreebsd-i386 pools (i.e. no importing of i386 pool).
> >   - debootstrap: Only operates on a single pool.
> 
> I don't think they require the binary-all packages to be in the same
> pool, but just listed in the same Packages file, the pool structure
> should be transparent to those tools, it could even be a flat
> hierarchy.

Ah, please excuse me, I understood it wrong.  Then it doesn't look like a big
deal.

-- 
Robert Millan



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