just a couple more questions about "arch" in /etc/ipkg.conf

  i'm still unclear about the purpose of the "arch" directive in the ipkg.conf
file. clearly, it's establishing a comparative priority for different architectures,
but for what exactly?

  someone on another list posted that his conf file contains

  arch all 1
  arch any 1
  arch noarch 1
  arch mipsel 20

so as i read it, this person is clearly working with the MIPS architecture.
so what does the above mean? that when he tries to download a package,
this set of priorities dictates which architecture of package it looks for first,
in case there is a choice?

  and why "20" here? as opposed to any other number? is this just supposed
to represent a value large enough to dwarf the others? would "2" have worked
just as well?

  and this poster also mentioned that this was what was found in his file
/etc/ipkg/arch.conf. i was not aware that there was a possible hierarchy
of configuration files. i hadn't seen this mentioned anywhere. can anyone
clarify this? i'd always thought that all configuration was in a single file.

rday
Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 14:42:08 EST