Handling multilib

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:04:47AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jakub Jelinek (jakub at redhat.com) said: 
> > We certainly need to include 32-bit gdb, so that people with 32-bit PPC
> > CPUs can debug things.  But I agree it is better on ppc64 kernel to install
> > just 64-bit gdb, 64-bit frysk, 64-bit strace and whatever else falls into
> > this category of packages that handle both 32-bit and 64-bit processes
> > in 64-bit incarnation, but 32-bit incarnation handles solely 32-bit ones.
> > Some tools tightly coupled with the kernel for which sufficient ioctl 32-bit
> > wrappers don't exist would fall here as well.
> 
> So, is your algorithm 'packages XYZ need to be installed as the largest
> wordsize ABI supported', or 'packages XYZ need to be installed as an
> architecture that matches the kernel installed'?

The former (which is equivalent to 'as an architecture that matches the running kernel').
You can have several kernels instaled and not all of them need to be the
same arch.

	Jakub