Re: Bug#317082: Not just a dpkg bug
On 05-Aug-18 14:47, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:05:42 +0200,
> Andreas Jochens wrote:
> > In the end it will be much easier to require a 64-bit machine to be
> > used to build 32/64-bit biarch packages instead of trying to circumvent
> > all these issues.
>
> Yes, that's one solution. However, instead, I would like to propose
> supporting 32bit and 64bit binaries as separated architectures.
>
> For example, think about ppc32 and ppc64. My proposal is to have both
> Debian/dists/sid/main/binary-powerpc and
> Debian/dists/sid/main/binary-ppc64. It's similar to the different
> architecture between i386 and amd64 - but ppc32 and ppc64 are not
> distinguished so much.
>
> If a package has (ex:) "Features: biarch" in debian/control (like
> Tollef's proposal), ppc64 buildd picks up to build this package. If
> it does not biarch capable package, it should not be built. It
> reduces much disk spaces on mirror servers, and the 90% of
> non-biarch-needed (binaries and libraries) packages do not need to
> consider about biarch problems. To install both 32/64 bit packages,
> we need to consider about the file duplication in /usr/share and
> /usr/bin - but fortunatelly the proposal of Scott's dpkg modification,
> FILTERS and CLASSES, probably fix this kind of problems.
>
> It's very simple way and we don't modify a lot of packages. If you
> guys like this idea, I'll write the proposal to debian-devel lists.
> Or is this idea already proposed?
I certainly like this idea.
There is already an inofficial buildd for the ppc64 architecture
running for 'unstable'. The respective ppc64 package archive is located at
deb http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4 unstable main
and almost 95% of all source packages from 'unstable' have already been
compiled for the ppc64 architecture.
A small number of packages still need some minor patches
to make this work, notably 'glibc' (see #301438 - the patch in that
bug is outdated, but I could supply an updated patch for this).
With this setup, the ppc64/powerpc situation would become very similar
to the amd64/i386 situation and the same solution for multiarch/biarch
support could be used for both cases.
Regards
Andreas Jochens
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