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Re: ia32-libs



v0n0 <aledj@email.it> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow ha scritto:
>
>>Imho dpkg should just put the files into /usr/lib32/ without any
>>complains. On the other hand, if dpkg unpacks libg2c0-dev before
>>ia32-libs, it would create a dir and the link would try to overwrite
>>this. That case has to be avoided.
>>
>>We might have to do some hacks to make this work right. One idea would
>>be to have libc6 contain a real directory /usr/lib32 and create
>>/usr/lib32 as link beforehand in preinst (or convert it to one if it
>>is a dir).
>>
>>Thoughts?
>>  
>>
> Or 32 bit packages could have files under /emul/ia32-linux/usr/lib
> instead /usr/lib32.

But they don't as seen by various bugreports.

Also Ubuntu uses a real /usr/lib32 so packages will be incompatible
between Debian and Ubuntu.

It would be nice to make it work for both.

MfG
        Goswin



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