Spilt libperl from perl

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Apr 23 20:43:42 UTC 2007


Michael Schwendt (bugs.michael at gmx.net) said: 
> > This solves the problem for now, and we already are planning to change
> > multilib for F8.
> > 
> > Changing multlib for Fedora 7:
> > 1) isn't on the feature list
> > 2) would slip the release (due to the necessity to fix broken upgrades)
> > 3) is after the feature freeze
> > 
> > 
> > .. all for a whopping 6 packages in Extras that need tweaked in some way?
> 
> wrt 2) why?  Apparently, removing perl.i386 in Core has not broken
> any package in Core. And the few in Extras 7 have been put onto the
> multi-lib blacklist. Since Extras 6 does not contain any multilib
> packages except for "wine" and its deps, there is no broken
> upgrade path. Or where is it?

Changing how multilib is done *everywhere* will break upgrades if
the package set changes.

Bill




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