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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:15:39 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=H1iXoEniT2YFdOaJGhv2LKTE4RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1587812.jsmFxfeUDg@powerslave>

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,
-- 
Pandu E Poluan
~ IT Optimizer ~
Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13  6:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-13  5:29 [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles for amd64 and x86 -- the same? Pandu Poluan
2011-06-13  6:02 ` Yohan Pereira
2011-06-13  6:15   ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-06-13  6:24     ` Dale
2011-06-13  6:27     ` Yohan Pereira
2011-06-13  7:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2011-06-13 10:19   ` Neil Bothwick

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