Time to make Extras multi-lib?

Michael Schwendt bugs.michael at gmx.net
Thu Jun 22 10:55:51 UTC 2006


On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:59:19 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 21:41 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 10:27 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > 
> > > I think the ideal way to handle this is to
> > > build only 64-bit on 64-bit, 32-bit on 32-bit, but make the 32-bit
> > > packages available in the 64-bit tree as well. At the moment, this isn't
> > > possible,
> > 
> > It ain't pretty, but it's possible from the repo management POV, we
> > already do copy i386 Wine packages + some dependencies over to the
> > x86_64 repo as part of the signing/pushing process.  See "copydict" at
> > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/extras-buildsys/utils/extras-sign-move.py?root=fedora&rev=.&view=markup
> 
> I suppose that would do as a workaround until something more like the ne
> algorithm used to determine what should be multilib in core gets
> implemented for extras as well...

Is that algorithm documented anywhere?

Is discussion about it taking place on a public mailing-list?
(if so, I'm failing to follow the right traffic)





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