Re: Upcoming Debian multiarch support (amd64, sparc64, s390x, mips64) [affects sarge slightly]
Hi!
On 2004-01-12 14:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Am I the only one to think the whole /lib64 idea is fundamentally
> broken? We already have ia64 without this. We can build a very similar
> system for amd64, introducing a new arch. Then, ship a few 32-bit
> compatibility libraries for 32-bit proprietary software.
If the only reason for not introducing a new architecture for amd64 is
to conserve archive space, then why this rather low-level problem
cannot be handled on a low level? Maybe by using hardlinks for
packages that don't differ on the two arches) instead of breaking the
current Debian package system and the LSB?
Additionaly, if you look at the fact that the number of packages in
Debian grows exponentially, the linear growth of ~ 10% more archive
space for a new architecture should not be much relevant in the
future.
OTOH, isn't that exactly the same situation on sparc64? IIRC you
can excute 32 bit programs on the 64 bit kernel (and, in fact, will do
so most of the time since most packages are 32 bit). I don't know
about the sparc64 very much, how is the problem solved there?
Thanks in advance,
Martin
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