Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 13:02, Yohan Pereira<yohan.pereira@gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On Monday 13 Jun 2011 12:29:27 Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Are the distfiles in /usr/portage/distfiles identical for both amd64
>>>        
>>      
>>> and x86 Gentoo?
>>>        
>> Well in most cases if the versions of the packages installed are same then
>> the distfiles are same. But sometimes certain ebuilds are masked for
>> different archs so you'll have different versions installed on your x86 and
>> amd64 machines, in that case the distfiles for those packages would be
>> different. Also there mite be certain ebuilds that install binary files like
>> flash those would be incompatible too.
>>
>>      
> Hmmm...
>
> But different distfiles will have different names, right?
>
> Rgds,
>    

In the case of a binary, it should.  If it didn't, portage wouldn't know 
which one it was getting.  It may not be a good idea to put a amd64 
binary on a x86 machine.  May not work to well.  So, they should be 
different.

As mentioned before, flash would be one case, video drivers could be 
another if they are binaries as well.  There may be others to.

Dale

:-)  :-)