[Fedora-packaging] 32- and 64-bit softwares living together

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Apr 17 18:27:28 UTC 2008


Sérgio Durigan Júnior wrote:

> Well, what happens is that in some archs (specifically PowerPC in our
> case) it's very common to have a biarch environment (i.e., 64-bit kernel
> and mixed 32/64-bit userspace), so it's not a strange thing to have both
> versions of some software installed in the system. 

Right.  If there are 32/64 packages available, and they don't properly 
install/run, then that's generally considered a bug (that should be fixed).

-- Rex




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