Multiarch crazyiness
Jon Masters
jonathan at jonmasters.org
Mon Oct 22 00:11:37 UTC 2007
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 22:18 +0100, Ian Chapman wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>
> > The current multilib solution in rpm is far from pretty, it works well,
> > but definitively has downsides. I think as is its a reasonable
> > comprimise, lets not add bandaids and patches to it for issues which
> > should be solved elsewhere, I feel the pain of maintainers getting these
> > bugs (I got 15 of them), but they are fixable without requiring the
> > addition of yet another multilib kludge to rpm.
>
> Well the question is still really where should these issues ultimately
> be solved? Is kludging the rpms any more elegant than patching rpm? I
> must admit I have no idea how other distro's deal with these kind of
> issues.
Without ranting aimlessly, IMO the only real solution is to stop
kludging rpm, yum, etc. and split out multilib libraries properly - and
if needed, seek and get approval for a bin64/bin32 with alternatives
system. Hacking RPM to simply ignore the fact that two packages provide
the same file is not the solution.
AFAIK, the only things in the way of a real solution are:
* Standards. These can be changed/updated.
* Packages. These can be fixed.
I'll shutup now ;-)
Jon.
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