On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:39:34PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Patrice Dumas (pertusus@xxxxxxx) said: > > How are the multilib conflicts tested? I'd like to verify that there are > > no conflicts anymore before building. > > Install x86_64 package. Then, in separate transaction, install i386 package. I can't do that in my system since I have an i386. Were the bugreports done that way? > > Also will this be extended to binary files? > > Depends. ELF files? No. Other binary files? (data, etc.) - yes. Ok. My personal opinion is that it would be better to extend to ELF files too, but there is considerable controversy on that subject, and on how to fix the multiarch issue. > > And last what to do when the conflict is 'logical'? I have 2 examples in > > the bes package: > > > > * there is a bes-config file which specifies the directory where > > dlopened backend modules are, this is a %_libdir subdirectory, so, > > it is logical to have a difference between arches. > > The general way to do this is making the *-config script call pkg-config. Ok. This requires collaboration with upstream, but it is worth pursuing. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
