Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 00:09, Anthony Towns wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:15:59PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > > You also get a split for bug reports. 
> > 
> > We already cope with that; see libc6/libc6.1. Don't think that's a
> > problem at all.
> > 
> It would be nice at some point if the BTS could have cross-package
> merged reports, but I suspect that's more of a headache than its worth.
> 
> > > An error in the libc6 postinst
> > > would be reported against libc6 and lib64c6 but both use the same
> > > postinst file.
> > 
> > Yep. *shrug*
> > 
> Assuming everything in /usr/lib gets magically moved to /usr/lib64 by
> dpkg, what if the postinst (run after the magic moving) fiddles in
> /usr/lib ?  You'd have to rewrite postinst as well, in which case it's
> no longer the same postinst file after all.

dpkg doesn't move that, wouldn't work with linked binaries. The
packages have to be compiled for /usr/lib64/.

If you fiddle around in /usr/lib in postinst you have to make two
seperate postinst scripts. Using some ${libprefix} substitution during
build comes to mind.

But again thats a general multiarch problem and irelevant to the
renaming issue.

MfG
        Goswin