Re: amd64-archive update
> >Le Dienstag 14 Februar 2006 17:04, Matthieu Helleboid a écrit :
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've made an update to amd64-archive made by Goswin von Brederlow.
> >>
> >> It will make a local repository for amd64 without a chroot for :
> >> * firefox, mozilla, opera, flash
> >> * mplayer, w32codecs
> >> * skype
> >> * openoffice
> >>
> >> Have a look at http://mhelleboid.free.fr/
>
>
> I'm sorry -- I'm a bit confused about what this script does, and
> the web page didn't really explain it. Does it remove the need for
> a 32-bit chroot to run the above apps on a 64-bit system? If so,
> how? By putting the 32-bit libraries in a special location, and
> then surrounding all the above apps in a script wrapper that
> sets library paths to the new locations? That kind of thing?
Right. It's not clearly explained, but from studying the page it seems that
installing amd64-archive creates an archive on your local machine of
modified packages that wrap the apps for execution in the 64-bit
environment. The archive of modified packages will be built in
/var/lib/amd64-archive.
It would seem better to create these packages once and for all and offer
them in an online archive for everyone, but better this way than nothing.
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