[maemo-developers] FatELF Re: rpm vs. deb and "universal binaries/packages"

[From: Shuduo Sang]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Robin Burchell <viroteck at viroteck.net>wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Christopher Intemann
> <intemann at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well I just find it nice to download a single software package, e.g. on
> the
> > Nokia Booklet running MeeGo, and then later copy the same package to the
> > N900 (which is also running MeeGo) and run it there. To make that
> possible,
> > there either has to be a Booklet based on ARM architecture, an rpm
> carrying
> > two platform specific versions of the software (e.g. ARM and Intel) or
> > something like fatelf...
> > Cheers,
> >  Chris
>
> The thing is, as the note of FatELF says themselves, that it will
> require more space (to download & store), meaning you're pretty much
> no better off than having downloaded it twice in the first place. And
> again, considering that (for the *end user*, not people on this
> list..) this is probably not going to be such a common use case - that
> increased size is probably too much cost for little gain.
>

that is what apple do in their universal binary format. it benefits for
end-user who do not know detail what their device running on arm or x86. for
the hacker want to reduce size, they can strip it to normal
architecture-dependent binary too.


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