On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:26:46AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > - Have all repos be single-arch. Those that want multilb subscribe to both > > repos, and have their packages determined by a yum plugin. > > Amen. It would be nice if we could have them subscribe to the _normal_ > i386 repo -- rather than having a separate repo with just a subset of > packages. The whole crappy 'has a -devel subpackage' heuristic can just > die, but this works _ONLY_ if we fix the tools to do the right thing > when the full set of secondary-arch packages is available. > Secondly, we should kill the dirty hack in RPM which allows packages > with file conflicts in /usr/bin to be installed, with RPM silently > choosing one of the available files. The decision about what to install > should come from whatever's calling RPM; RPM shouldn't be > second-guessing. We should fix our packaging so that these file > conflicts don't exist This sounds a lot like asking for bin64 series of the bins with the 64 bit versions taking precedence of the legacy ones (e.g. the typical simplified path gets from /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin to /usr/local/sbin64:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin64:/usr/local/bin:/sbin64:/sbin:/bin64:/bin:/usr/sbin64:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin64:/usr/bin). I wonder why it was never considered from the start, maybe there is some flaw in this design. Most packages would rebuild properly with a %_(s)bindir defined to /usr/(s)bin64. The ones making some trouble would be the ones that drop off bits into /(s)bin. But their number is managable. As a side effect this would solve the libexec issue as well, but that's just some cosmetics. Note: Of course this solves nothing for 7, but maybe for 8. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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