kolab lack of x86_64 packages

John McMonagle johnm at advocap.org
Mon Jun 6 22:17:30 CEST 2011


I agree  about the 64bit.
Currently we are about 90% 64bit on servers.
All our servers capable of running 64bit are.

I suspect it's a matter of creating, maintaining and supporting another set of 
binaries.

John

On Sunday 05 June 2011 10:12:01 pm Divan Santana wrote:
> On Monday 06 June 2011 02:42:26 Mark Berndt wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:41:00 pm you wrote:
> > > On Friday 15 April 2011 20:18:03 Divan Santana wrote:
> > > > Firstly, congrats on kolab 2.3.0 release! :)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I was just wondering how come there is a lack of x86_64 packages?
> > > > There is and has always been x86 packages and source but no x86_64
> > > > packages.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In todays time 99% of linux servers I come across are x86_64 installs
> > > > so it  seems unusual.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Are there problems with kolab on 64 bit arch or is it fine and good
> > > > practice to  use 64 bit systems and install kolab from source?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Greetings :)
> > >
> > > Anyone?
> >
> > Disregard the bit about building the packages - that was for kontact.
> >
> > I install kolab from source on amd64 - it takes several hours.
>
> Yeah, I've been doing that too however the same question remains.
>
> Why aren't there prebuilt packages for x86_64 for debian and rather ix86
> packages only?
>
> In this day and age, 99% of computers we use are x86_64, especially for
> groupware servers you would expect to rather find x86_64 packages.
>
> Lastly, I hope the wiki is fixed soon.
>
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