Re: [webmin-l] can you make a alpha port available inwebmin'srepository?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Yeah, that's what I do. Is there a list somewhere of all the  
architectures debian supports? That way I could update my repo script  
to create links for all of them..

  - Jamie


On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Kris Deugau <kd...@vi...> wrote:

> mo...@tu... wrote:
>> On Sat 24/10/09 5:38 PM , "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>    Sure, done. Let me know if it works for you..
>>
>> As a fellow dynamic interpreted languages coder, let me just say  
>> that it
>> seems broken that one should have to create a bunch of different
>> repositories for each platform for a platform-independant  
>> application.
>> Shouldn't there be some way to mark an APT repository as 'all'  
>> platforms
>> or 'platform independant' or something, just like you can for  
>> individual
>> packages?
>
> Not really, no;  the client requests a list of packages for its own
> architecture.  So far as the upper levels of the repo's API (such as  
> it
> is) are concerned, there is *no such thing* as an arch-independent
> package.  (I learned this the hard way building my own tools to create
> Debian-compatible APT repositories.)
>
> That said, if you're providing a repo with only arch-independent
> packages, it's usually pretty trivial to generate metadata and/or
> symlinks as needed to feed other architectures - you "just" have to  
> have
> a list of them to feed into your repo-munging scripts.
>
> -kgd
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