a crackpot idea i had

[Keith Antoine]

On Thursday 23 May 2002 19:39, dep wrote:
> begin  Keith Antoine's  quote:
> | One point and I have seen chatter about it before BUT: What
> | difference would an i386.rpm have to an i686 and would it be best
> | to do them as i386? Suse rpms will install with Caldera, won't they
> | ?
>
> i686 stuff is (supposedly) optimized for later chips and won't run on
> earlier ones; the lowest common denominator is i386. and suse rpms
> might or might not work, depending on where suse puts stuff compared
> to where ed 2.4 did. among the leading differences is /etc/.

So it would be best to install 2.4 and process all the tarballs and srpms in 
that distr and version.


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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
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Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage