Multiarch crazyiness

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 22/10/2007, Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/10/2007, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:35:00 -0400
> > Jon Masters <jcm at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Jesse - ideas on how to organize this effort?
> >
> > Start a paper, define what the problem space is, define what goals
> > should be accomplished to have a solution (not what the solution would
> > be), identify key people involved, pitch it to somebody with budget to
> > fly people around and feed/house them for a few days.
> >
>
> Two very informative sites about how Debian is approaching the problem:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch
> http://lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/
>
> In particular, this paper from canonical does a quite nice job of
> laying out the problem:
>
> http://multiarch.alioth.debian.org/multiarch-hp-report.pdf
>

Also, Axel Thimm had what seemed like some reasonable proposals to do
with the multiarch binary installation part of the problem:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-maintainers/2007-April/msg00511.html

Jonathan (wondering where Axel has gone).