Splitting the ncurses RPM

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jun 7 17:54:55 UTC 2007


Simo Sorce (ssorce at redhat.com) said: 
> to be honest,
> I think deciding the package shape based on the broken way we are
> currently detecting multi-libs is a bad way to decide.
> 
> We should fix the way we detect multi-libs, not produce substandard
> packaging to keep the current multi-libs detection process happy.

It's not a matter of changing the detection (getting the right packages
in the tree a multilib), it's a matter of making upgrades work when
package X is no longer multilib. That's significantly trickier.

Bill




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