for different applications?
I want to make a remaster and flag the Debian rpms as i686.
Can someone give me few pointers on where to start with this?
Thank you :)
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for different applications?
I want to make a remaster and flag the Debian rpms as i686.
Can someone give me few pointers on where to start with this?
Thank you :)
I think... you are a bit confused
in debian world things aren't done through rpms
(rpm is a redhatism and friends)
the most general way to install programs is by compiling (although that's some work, that's why package systems are born).
On debian we install with apt/dpkg programs and the files are debian packages (wiith extension .deb)
you can get them at packages.debian.org
or make the system automatically upgrade editing the proper config files
ops.
I thought that debian packages were another rpm format :oops: .
Is there any way to flag i386 debian packages as i686?
--I did:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list|grep src
...which went nowhere. Then I went to http://www.debian.org/mirror/list and poked around on the FTP servers a bit, which got me this:
http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/debian/dis...o/main/source/
--That's for the old version (potato) tho, which prolly doesn't help you. Anyway to make a long story short, I googled on "apt-get source --compile" and got this:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-lapto.../msg00290.html
And:
http://lrlug.org/archives/lrlug-disc...ne/008176.html
--After that, you're on your own. :lol:
(It sounds like a very complex process, for AFAICTell, very little gain. But if you do it, post some before/after benchmarks so we can see if optimizing for architecture is as beneficial as Gentoo supposedly says.)
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thanks man :)
--Note - the forum database went crezzy on me so my edit had to be deferred until now. See above post again for changes.
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