Handling multilib

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 15:02:51 UTC 2007


David Woodhouse (dwmw2 at infradead.org) said: 
> 2. Do we ship both versions of this package in the default install?
...
> 3. Do we _install_ both versions of this package by default, either
> during installation or upon 'yum install foo'? Or do we install the
> primary architecture version alone? The secondary architecture alone?
> The 64-bit version alone? The 32-bit version alone?

So, the idea I had is that for things like this:

- you subscribe your multi-arch system to both channels

- the decision for what is installed is done via yum plugins/configurable
  yum behavior
  
You could say 'multlib=devel', to get development packages and their
dependencies. Or 'runtime', to get runtime libraries. Or 'none', to
get, well, nothing.

This isn't something that can be done for F7, though.

Bill




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