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

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

Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow dijo [Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:21:22AM +0100]:
> > > 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.
> 
> I forsee this will create a huge wave of RC bugs because of developers
> who didn't get it right or did not have a multiarch environment to
> play around. Currently, people know how to build packages, and it
> works (mostly) fine across our currently supported platforms. This
> scheme will make people go nuts :(

Yes. Look how nuts I already are. :) There are a few guidelines being
worked out how to port libs and after a few libs one learns to spot
the problems.

But thats the reason why I rather increase the complexity of dpkg
slightly and reduce the porting work for every package.

MfG
        Goswin