31 Mar
2005
31 Mar
'05
11:12 p.m.
On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 23:37 +0200, derek holzer wrote:
A question, then: how well does Familiar support Debian ARM binaries in practice? You mentioned in an earlier mail on the PDa topic that cross-compatibility was maintained for Familiar, but not for Open Zaurus, but I haven't found much mention anywhere (on Handhelds.org or Familiar list) of using Debian packages on Familiar. Just how much of a mess does this make?
The issue is twofold:
- First of all Familiar does indeed retain binary compatibility with Debian/ARM for now. So, you can take a binary from a Debian/ARM package and run it on a Familiar system. However, that is not strictly guaranteed to work. Libraries may have been built with different compile time options which other applications in either Debian or Familiar rely on.
- Secondly you probably want to install .debs directly. I don't think ipkg support apt repositories but I have been told you can download a .deb manually and install it with ipkg. Dependencies may or may not match, so you may need a --force-depends or similar.
It all depends on which package you want to install. Give it a try - YMMV.
Rene