64 bit: "noarch" packages and going beta

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Wed Apr 10 13:37:00 GMT 2013


On 4/10/2013 9:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Greetings venerable maintainers,
>
>
> I have two questions:
>
> - Does anybody know of a simple way to find out which packages in the 32
>    bit distro are actually "noarch' packages?  The reason I'm asking is
>    that I'm looking for a simple way to fill up the 64 bit distro with
>    all the packages which don't come with binaries, but consist entirely
>    of scripts and docs.
>
> - Those of you testing the 64 bit Cygwin:  How do you judge the
>    stability of the 64 bit Cygwin DLL?  Is it still rather pre-beta, or
>    are we in a stage where we can offically open up the test distro to a
>    wider audience?

I've been finding it quite stable.  Opening it up to a wider audience 
seems like a good idea.

Ken



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