Re: [cooker-amd64] Any hdlist-ifiied amd64 cooker contrib mirrors? Where is Mdk for amd64 headed?

[Gwenole Beauchesne]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Duncan wrote:

> With 9.2 for amd64 now available, when will it hit the mirrors?

When at least one customer will be shipped the CDs but this hasn't 
happened yet. :-/

> When it does, will there be a properly urpmi functional contribs on them
> as well?

If Warly kept amd64/contrib and his bot is not continuously nuking my
rsync'ed hdlists or touching files from stable releases, yes this will
work.

> What about cooker?  Will it then more or less sync to i586 cooker?  Why is
> there a Mdk 10.0 test snapshot available for i586 but not amd64?

Because it was not decided yet whether there would be a 10.0 or not. Now
that people finally agreed, this will happen.

> Does that mean the amd64 architecture is NEVER going to sync, only be
> supported in fits and starts with various arbitrary releases, and never
> be fully and continuously updated more or less, as i586 cooker is?

I always rsync working snapshots when I feel they are stable enough.  
However, there is no cooker/amd64 yet.

> Will we always be limited to a comparatively small subset of the i586
> main+cooker packages?

I only support packages from main for now. Stefan is building contribs.

> I'm asking, because I read the initial answers here as saying they'd
> pretty much sync after the freeze for 9.2 for amd64 was lifted.  Pr// os
> a;; the time I'm investing in Mdk in particular for amd64, now, a waste,
> and I'll need to go looking for another distrib?

What do you mean?

> One of the reasons I'm asking is that I read the announcement yesterday
> on LWN that it was out now, and went to Mdk-store, fully expecting to
> purchase it.  I'm and individual, not a business, so I first look there. 
> **NOTHING** for amd64 in the individual offerings at the store!

Reporting the problem can help too. This will have to be addressed.

Bye,
Gwenole.