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Re: 64 bit: "noarch" packages and going beta
- From: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- To: "cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:38:23 -1000
- Subject: Re: 64 bit: "noarch" packages and going beta
- References: <20130410131656 dot GA5138 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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.