On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 09:51 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:41:12 +0100 > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > OK, so how do we fix it? I _thought_ that the best option was what I'd > > already done -- file individual enhancement requests as part of a > > coherent plan to get us to a better place. But you don't like those. > > So what now? > > I've been planning for some time now a get together of sorts in person > to hash this out. The basic idea I'm thinking of is a runtime > configuration in yum that lets you adhere to whatever multilib strategy > you want on that particular system. You point at both full repos and > let yum figure out, based on requested strategy, what to do on > install/update/obsolete/whatever actions. Composing exploaded repos is > easy, no cross pollination. Composing DVDs is easy (but bloaty) you > just put both repos in whole on the media (or opt out of the secondary > arch all together on the media). > > My plan for the get together is to hash out what each of these > strategies are, get out and understood why we're at where we are at > today (I'm told time and time again that there are real good > reasons...), There are reasons, certainly. I'm not sure all of them are _good_ reasons :) One of the reasons I see for the 'install both' strategy is the lack of arch-specific dependencies in RPM. I tried building evolution.ppc64 recently, having purged my system of all ppc64 userspace. It was not fun, because the BuildRequires were all satisfied by the existence of the 32-bit packages, which weren't actually what was needed. But as I said, there's a bug on the tracker for that one too. "Just Install Everything" isn't really a good workaround, although it does work. > I wanted to do this near the time that F9 development starts, unknown > if it will happen or not. Who do we need that isn't based around Boston? I seem to spend half my life on planes at the moment, and come through Boston relatively frequently. Should I just try to give you a bit of warning each time I fly in, to see if we can all find some time? I should probably be out there next week or so, hopefully. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
