Bug#363442: libc6-xen should not conflict with any other libc6-$flavor
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 01:02:59PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Jeff Bailey wrote:
>
> > Le mardi 18 avril 2006 à 23:02 -0500, Adam Heath a écrit :
> > > package: libc6-xen
> > > version: 2.3.6-7
> > >
> > > Please don't conflict with libc6-686. When one dual-boots, one would like to
> > > have both of these packages installed, and have the appropriate one selected
> > > at runtime.
> >
> > Yup - we're working on the necessary runtime detection for this. It
> > still requires more work, though.
>
> Need help with it? Someone willing to test? Do you have an idea of which
> version will have this, and when it will be uploaded?
>
> I'm ready to upload xen 3.0.2, with a dependency on libc6-xen.
>
The changes have been done in the SVN for the experimental version of
the glibc, so they will appear with the next upload, probably in the
next few days.
The solution is to use the new hwcap function of ldconfig introduced in
glibc 2.4, so the changes will only appear for etch + 1. This is not
easily backportable to etch, anyway the glibc in etch is now frozen.
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