Debian AMD64 port :: ChangeLog

Recent work...

• [2004-01-11]
  update-dpk-status
  - perl script to fill in Architecture and ABI field of /var/lib/dpkg/status file;
  - the script takes STDIN input and STDOUT output.

• [2003-01-09]
  dpkg 1.10.18-subarch4
  - this release contains bug fixes for subarch3.

  apt 0.5.17-subarch1
  - merged 0.5.17 with subarch work;
  - added support for 'apt-get install package:arch';
  - apt-cache policy now prints package Architecture.

• [2004-01-07]
  linux-2.4.24-debian-1
  - built a non-packaged kernel for a Tyan Thunder K8 system.

• [2003-12-16]
  dpkg 1.10.18-subarch3
  - includes a previously missed update from Goswin von Brederlow which fixes a problem in dpkg-architecture;
  - moved multiarch functionality to lib/multiarch.c and include/multiarch.h;
  - added Arch and ABI enumeration functions;
  - added faster Arch comparison and ABI comparison functions;
  - general cleanup to mutliarch support.

• [2003-12-11]
  dpkg 1.10.18-subarch2
  - 1.10.18-subarch1 w/ subarchtable's new format and dpkg no longer forks a perl interpreter to parse the subarchtable -- done in C now.

• [2003-11-29]
  kernel-patch-2.4.23-amd64 20031129.1
  - built 2.4.23 for amd64, smp, and bochs.

  debhelper 4.1.80-lib64.1
  - propegated lib64 support into v4.1.80.

• [2003-11-28]
  dpkg 1.10.18-subarch1
  - merged in subarch stuff into 1.10.18 from sid.

  zlib 1:1.1.4-16lib64.1
  - propegated lib64 support into v1.1.4-16.

  fakeroot 0.8.2-biarch1
  - propegated biarch support into 0.8.2.

• [2003-10-14]
  debhelper 4.1.74-lib64.2
  - applied Tony Hoyle's patch (email).

• [2003-09-29]
  kernel-patch-2.4.23-pre5-amd64 20030927.1-1
  - built 2.4.23-pre5 for amd64, smp, and bochs.

• [2003-09-27]
  dpkg 1.10.15-subarch1
  - merged in subarch stuff into 1.10.15 from sid.

  fakeroot 0.7.8-biarch1
  - propegated lib64 support into v0.7.8.

  debhelper 4.1.74-lib64.1
  - propegated lib64 support into v4.1.74.

  apt 0.5.14-subarch1
  - propegated subarch support into v0.5.14.

  zlib 1:1.1.4-15lib64.1
  - propegated lib64 support into v1.1.4-15.

• [2003-09-23]
  fakeroot 0.7.7-biarch1
  - work on lib64 propagated to 0.7.7 release.

• [2003-09-21]
  fakeroot 0.7.5-biarch2
  - fixed an alignment bug in the libfakeroot/faked message structures;
  - bug 212087

• [2003-09-11]
  - generated a debdiff for the glibc 2.3.2-1.biarch3 package.

• [2003-09-07] glibc 2.3.2-1.biarch3
  - fixed ldd bug (lib64 support); lib64c6 now has preinst and postrm scripts to dpkg-divert the ldd script.

• [2003-08-12]
  - rebuilt coreutils and modutils;
  - not much progress... been fighting with a bug in fakeroot.

• [2003-08-10] zlib 1:1.1.4-14lib64.1
  - can be built for amd64 or i386:
    dpkg-buildpackage
    linux32 dpkg-buildpackage
  - patch is available.

  apt 0.5.8-subarch.3
  - fixed a bug with package cache generation;
  - fixed a bug with broken sub-arch test.

• [2003-08-09]

  apt 4.1.60-lib64.1
  - new version merged with lib64 patches;
  - probably broken :)

  fakeroot 0.7.5-biarch1
  - new version merged with lib64 patches.

• [2003-08-08]
  - in general news, Mattias is working on a FAQ for us;
  - for me it was busy day... got a lot of things I wanted done;
  - apt is now working for sub-architectures (see below)
    ... I've only tested update, upgrade and install   :)
  - bad versioning decisions of the past made me remove some old packages out of the apt repository.

  apt 0.5.8-subarch.2
  - added APT::Architecture::compatlist variable support to apt.conf;
  - all tests for supported architecture is now done against this list;
  - on the amd64 the supported archs are: amd64 i686 i586 i486 i386;
  - to use apt, see my sources.list and preferences examples.

  dpkg 1.10.10.0-subarch.3
  - added some C++ build tags that were helpfull in building apt;
  - cleaned up versioning, wich means that for this install you will have to do:
  apt-get install dpkg=1.10.10.0-subarch.3
  - but that does not really matter since no one had a working apt for amd64 before this release.

• [2003-08-07] apt 0.5.8-subarch.1
  - added lib64 support to apt;
  - first hacks at being able to support i386 and amd64 package indexes in sources.list;
  - use can supply the overriding architecture after the distribution name, ex: testing(i386);
  - a lot of apt functionality is still missing from this package.

• [2003-07-31] dpkg 1.10.10.0lib641+subarch-2
  - revamped the subarchitecture support (new config file format);
  - currently installing i386.deb's and amd64.deb's works, but building said packages is tricky;
  - the version string is messed up and I will fix that in the next release.

• [2003-07-24] OLS/2003 - gave a short talk on the port progress
  - check out the MagicPoint slides

• [2003-07-18] gcc-3.3 3.3.1-0pre0 (biarch)
  - rebuilt new version.

• [2003-07-16] dpkg 1.10.10.0lib641+subarch
  - added subarchitecture support;
  - see email for more info.

• [2003-07-11] fakeroot 0.7.4.biarch4
  - cleaned up biarch support (amd64,sparc64,s390x);
  - fixed internal libfakeroot tests so that they run on a biarch system.

• [2003-07-07] kernel-patch-2.4.21-amd64 20030707.1
  - packaged up 2.4.21 kernel with amd64 specific configurations;
  - added patch to fix mkdep limitation - would fail on compile in long paths.

Other work...

• I have also worked on the following (in varied capacity)...

  • fakeroot (improved biarch support)
  • kernel-patch-2.4.21-amd64
  • kernel-package
  • hdparm (32bit hdparm does not work with 2.4.21.amd64)
  • glibc-2.3.2-biarch2 (compiled with gcc-3.3)
  • dpkg with support for Package64 tag (temporary)
  • file
  • sharutils

  please note that most of this work was based on patches for the s390x architechture from Gerhard Tonn;
  also, some of the packages were based on Arnd Bergmann's work (see links).