[F8/multilib] {,/usr}/{,s}bin64 (was: Split libperl from perl)

[Ed Hill]

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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Edward H. Hill III, PhD  |  ed at eh3.com  |  http://eh3.com/
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