On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 08:37 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote: > Eg - yaboot is ppc32 only - as OF only supports booting 32bit ELF > IIRC. > > ppc64-utils requires yaboot > ppc64-utils in the ppc64 tree has a broken dep > > Therefore in the ppc64 only tree which doesn't have any biarch magic > ppc64-utils will always be seen as broken. Ah, I understand. But doesn't that mean the ppc64 compose isn't bootable? I haven't tried it, but I thought it should give a fully 64-bit system. Should we do the same (evil) trick as we do with memtest86 on x86_64 -- build a 64-bit package which actually contains 32-bit binaries? -- dwmw2
