Hi Rex, On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 12:41 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > Sérgio Durigan Júnior wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I would like to know if there are any efforts to make both 32- and > > 64-bit versions of the same package "live" together in a system. > > 32/64 bit versions of any/all packages? No. > > But if the pkg's in question satisfy fedora's notion/definition of > multilib (which is complicated in itself), yes. Well, what happens is that in some archs (specifically PowerPC in our case) it's very common to have a biarch environment (i.e., 64-bit kernel and mixed 32/64-bit userspace), so it's not a strange thing to have both versions of some software installed in the system. I've used Perl as an example, but I can cite a lot more packages that may need to be installed correctly in a biarch environment (Python, PHP, Ruby, Apache). That's the rationale behind my question :-). BTW, can you please tell me where can I find the multilib definition? I've been reading http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/MultilibTricks , but I don't know if it's official. Thanks, -- Sérgio Durigan Júnior Linux on Power Toolchain - Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - LTC IBM Brazil -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
