[wplug] 386 vs 586

[Arnaud Loos]

Interesting. There is a 686 version of the package available but it's only
40K in size vs. 2.5 MB for the 386 and 586 versions. This just didn't seem
right to me. Any ideas? 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+arnaud=arnaudloos.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+arnaud=arnaudloos.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Embery,
Nathan
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:32 AM
To: 'General user list'
Subject: RE: [wplug] 386 vs 586

If you have a pentium II or higher you definitely want the 586 packages and
686 if possible. This just means that they compiled the packages with
-march=pentiumpro or higher. This just tells the compiler to assume extra
cpu features are present such as sse and mmx. These are things that mplayer
in particular will be greatly benefited by (multimedia extensions)...

Also, the 0.2 probably means its just a newer package. If there ever *was* a
case where a package needed to be split into to, apt-get would be smart
enough to install both of them for you.


Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Arnaud Loos [mailto:arnaud at arnaudloos.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 10:26 AM
To: 'General user list'
Subject: [wplug] 386 vs 586

I've been looking through
ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/ and have
a question. I'm looking at installing mplayer with apt from here (1.0-pre6)
but notice that I can choose either mplayer-386 or mplayer-586. I've been
using 386 versions of packages (kernel-image) which I believe is correct,
but which architecture are the 586 packages for? If I do choose the 386
version there are 2 files available, mplayer-386_1.0-pre6-sarge0.1_i386 and
mplayer-386_1.0-pre6-sarge0.2_i386. Is this one file split into 2 parts or
is the second one a newer build? Which should I tell apt to install?

As always, thanks!

Arnaud-


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