| To: | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> |
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| Subject: | Re: Dumb Question on Cross-Development |
| From: | Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:05:38 +0200 |
| Cc: | Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>, "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>, "\"MIPS/Linux List (SGI)\"" <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com> |
| In-reply-to: | <E14klMh-0001kx-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:22:16PM +0100 |
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:22:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Or a flawed packaging tool. RPM allows you to force noarch and you can use it
> to get around this precise problem. Its also useful when you want to force
> an x86 package onto an Alpha with em86.
>
> I find it hard to believe dpkg lacks such a feature.
>
Just had a look - One can install them
dpkg --force-architecture -i --root=/nfsexport
But i was arguing against compiling the packages as "noarch" not installing
them with noarch.
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
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