[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 (was: Split libperl from perl)
Ed Hill
ed at eh3.com
Mon Apr 30 21:40:43 UTC 2007
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:46:04 +0200 Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:24:12PM +0200, Phil Knirsch wrote:
>
> > The solution debian and Gentoo iirc use which are basically
> > buildroots is the only way i know how you can cleanly separate
> > various archs on one system. Sadly you'll then loose the common and
> > sharable files, but any other solution will need very carefull and
> > detailed planing.
>
> Personally I prefer banning multilib in rpm for good and if that would
> be best done by using chroot solutions, I'm all for it. The multilib
> implementation within rpm magic just isn't scaling and produces more
> bugs on the way than we can fix.
I'm not familiar with the chroots used in Debian or Gentoo. Can someone
please say a few words about their usability? I'm just wondering about
the following:
- do chroots require special permissions or group memberships?
- once you are in a chroot isn't it nearly impossible to
access files outside it? Put differently, are there some
interesting soft-linking or re-mounting gymnastics or other
hacks going on here to get at, say, your ${HOME} or other
random directories from a chroot-ed program?
It just seems to me that chroots are probably a lot less usable than
binaries placed in {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 or similar.
Ed
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