64 bit: "noarch" packages and going beta

NightStrike nightstrike@gmail.com
Wed Apr 10 13:38:00 GMT 2013


On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 3:16 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?

Might not be a bad idea to get the gcc testsuite to pass.  It's huge,
and thus somewhat comprehensive.

Maybe there's some other packages out there with giant testsuites, too.



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