<div>On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Andrew Flegg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@bleb.org" target="_blank">andrew@bleb.org</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:46, Christopher Intemann <<a href="mailto:intemann@gmail.com" target="_blank">intemann@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Since MeeGo is about to be released as well for the ARM as the Intel<br>
> platform, I really wonder whether either of the package formats (rpm/deb)<br>
> has the capability to include both binaries (ARM and Intel) but install<br>
> only the matching one automatically?<br>
<br>
</div>Why not leave it up to the builder? Our current auto-builder, and OBS<br>
(as used by Moblin & MeeGo) both support the building of multiple<br>
architectures into multiple repositories.<br>
<br>
> Of course, this would probably double the size of the rpm/deb, [...]<br>
<br>
...and so the download.<br>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, that's true, but since we're talking about mobile devices with limited hardware, the apps are usually not that big anyways. I was just thinking that the benefit would outbalance the size issue, at least as long as we're talking about download sizes of one or two megabyte.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
> It would then be more transparent for the enduser to install additional<br>
> packages without having to think of their hardware architecture...<br>
<br>
</div>Surely the user is going to be getting the package through some kind<br>
of package manager which makes the distinction moot? How often have<br>
you had to decide between i386 or armel debs on your Maemo device to<br>
date?<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure, but is there a recent i386 port of Maemo at all? :-)</div><div>No one is running Maemo on i386, not even Nokia on their Booklet 3G.</div><div>However, this is likely to change in the future, since Moblin is already common on netbooks. Of course, it is possible let the repository autodetect the platform requesting a package and supply the matching one. On the other hand, Apple had a great success story when they almost seamlessly switched from PPC to Intel by introducing their universal binaries.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm just curious: Does either rpm or deb provide this feature?</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div>