Re: [cooker-amd64] Re: Re: MDK 9.2 for AMD64 packages list

[J.P. Pasnak]

Stefan van der Eijk said:

> Duncan wrote:
>
>>Gwenole Beauchesne posted
>><Pine.LNX.4.50.0311281409470.1774-100000@thalys.mandrakesoft.com>,
>>excerpted below,  on Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:39:59 +0100:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Duncan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>What's the best way to indicate that I'm supporting the distrib as
>>>>developed for amd64 with this money?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>The Mandrake Linux 9.2 for AMD64 product will be sold on MandrakeStore
>>> at
>>>around 100 USD.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Thanks.  I was wondering about the price..
>>
>>
>>>I don't know either and I too would like to know. Besides MandrakeClub
>>>subscriptions or telling people you are happy with it ("evangelism"?)
>>> and
>>>do care of the work done for MDK/amd64, at least for this version?
>>>
>>>Thanks for your interest in MDK for AMD64.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>And thank YOU (personally, and Mdk corporate, and the "you" that
>>includes all the contributors and cookerites like me, all three).
>>
>>.. It's a bit frustrating right now, but at least part of that is because
>>the amd64 version isn't out yet and packages are somewhat limited -- not
>>all have been ported and some aren't easily compiled from src.rpm yet.
>>I'm looking forward to having full cooker/contribs/plf urpmi support
>>without having to worry about stuff being missing that I know is
>> available
>>in i586, and all that.
>>
> Hi Duncan,
>
> I've got slbd (http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/SlBd) on
> an amd64 and it's compiling cooker / contrib / plf. It's (the process is
> fully automated) uploading the contrib and plf packages, Gwenole is
> taking care of cooker. Since amd64 is a bit different from i586 (aren't
> all ports?) some stuff won't compile & work out of the box right away. I
> hope that by making the packages that *do* compile out of the box
> available, the software will get more exposure and more bugs will be
> fixed. For the sake of making things clear: the packages this process
> uploads have not had any form of amd64 specific QA, they are provided
> "as-is". Use at your own risk...
>

I think this is exactly what I was looking for in the other thread....

>
> PS: I can also make *unofficial* cooker main packages that this amd64
> host has built available, if there is enough interest.
>

Well, I'm interested :)

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