On Saturday, 28 April 2007 at 13:17, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:36:53PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: [...] > > > > Well not in near future anyway (read: F7). Perhaps for F8/F9. > > Check the subject line, it was never ever intended for F7. :) Right. [...] > There could also be > > 3) No one gets /bin, /lib directly, everything gets bult into > bin32/bin64 etc. and bin and lib are set as follows (symlinks) > > i386: bin -> bin32, lib -> lib32 > x86_64: bin -> bin64, lib -> lib64 > ppc: bin -> bin32, lib -> lib32 > ... > > That would give you proper symmetry, reusable packages from one > arch onto another (e.g. not packaging extra i386 packages for > x86_64), and bin/lib would always point to the native components. > > I think there are lots of variants, even using different folder > names. The main aspect that separates this from multilib is that it > has different folders for binaries of the different archs. > > And FWIW if that other folder is in a chroot, that would be fine with > me as well (maybe not called multiarch anymore, but names are just > sound and smoke) - the important thing is no more filecolor induced > file overwrites or remove/install punchholes, and also not replacing > this by file-conflicting bins that need to be redownloaded each time > for switching. Hm, now that I think about it, can't it be achieved with rpm -ivh --relocate /bin=/bin32 and so on *without* rebuilding packages? Well, modulo hardcoded strings. I still don't like the idea of parallel installation of 32bit/64bit binaries. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
