feedback: fc5 and fc6t3 x86_64

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:27:43 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:00:37PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wednesday 18 October 2006 19:28, Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> > > Should this be included by default for x86_64 ?
> > > user joe won't figure it out like this.
> > 
> > Absolutely not.  An end user's multilib capable machine + OS should install 
> > the multilib software by default.  An end user shouldn't have to figure out 
> > how to add it after the fact.  It should Just Work(tm) for the user.  There 
> > should be no problem with the x86_64 and i386 packages being installed.  If 
> > there are, like multilib file conflicts, we fix them.
> 
> Is it true for Extras? I haven't seen anything like a push for multilib
> in extras, for example there is nothing in the guidelines, nor something 
> reporting the conflicts. Did I miss something?

We've talked about it a few weeks ago. Currently, only Wine i386 plus its
dependencies are copied into the x86_64 repository. With every push of new
packages, updates of packages in the dependency chain are recognised and
are distributed to the multi-lib repositories automatically, too.

As soon as the FC-6 branch is available, we can switch a few bits for the
next "development" tree of Extras and copy all *-devel packages and their
dependencies, too. Additional work will be needed as conflicts are found
and as we find packages we want to add to the white-list and black-list of
what shall become multi-lib capable or not.