Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron) and migration?
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On Monday 16 June 2003 09:12, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> # echo x86-64 >>/etc/dpkg/legal-archs
>
> or, if ordering matters,
>
> # echo x86-64 >/etc/dpkg/legal-archs.new
> # cat /etc/dpkg/legal-archs >>/etc/dpkg/legal-archs.new
> # mv /etc/dpkg/legal-archs.new /etc/dpkg/legal-archs
AFAICS, ordering should not matter for dpkg, it will simply
install any legal package when asked to. I have currently
hardcoded the check for i386 packages into my amd64
dpkg...
> The biggest objection that was raised is that it will be necessary
> to make the source package for libreadline4 generate two packages,
> libreadline4 and lib64readline4. Same for all other libraries. IOW,
> there's no automatic way to create all these lib64* packages from
> source.
Currently, we are using a set of patches from Gerhard Tonn to
build libraries on amd64 and on s390x that minimize the necessary
source changes. Unfortunately, there has been no word about it
from any dpkg or debhelper maintainer.
See Bug #197117 and http://people.debian.org/~gt/lib64/.
Arnd <><
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