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Re: Testing ping for cygwin x86_64
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:26:09 -0400
- Subject: Re: Testing ping for cygwin x86_64
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 08:38:38PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote:
>Christopher Faylor writes:
>>>Noarch packages are fine, but the packaging mechanism doesn't support
>>>them the same way as in Linux distros. They still have to show up
>>>twice, once in the 32 and once in the 64 bit release area.
>>
>> i.e., just like Linux distros do.
>
>Not all or even most of them. The repo layout usually is like this:
>
>dist/
> noarch/
> i386/
> i586/
> i686/
> x86_64/
>
>Setup.exe can deal just fine with such a layout when there are ../noarch
>paths in setup.ini.
http://mirror.pnl.gov/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/e/
Notice the "noarch" intermingled with x86_64.
cgf