Bug#469035: libc6-i386: include mutiarch ld.conf from i386
Javier Serrano Polo a écrit :
> El dg 11 de 05 de 2008 a les 22:33 +0200, en/na Aurelien Jarno va
> escriure:
>> Ahahahahaha. I understand know. You are just using multiarch paths in a
>> very hackish way like a few users from this list...
>
> You say it's hackish without naming any reason. I say it's working
> providing a repository.
As already explained, the main problem is that you are calling
"multiarch" something that is really different from the original
concept. If you had read the proposed links you would have noticed that.
Your concept is hackish because it is based on the conversion of already
existing packages into ia32-$(package)_all.deb. This:
- means we have twice the same package in the archive, which is a very
inefficient way of storing data. This will be surely rejected by the
ftpmasters.
- means the package has to be converted. We need an infrastructure for that.
- is a nightmare from the security point of view.
- renders the changes in a package a lot more complex. You can't simply
run apt-get, patch and dpkg-buildpackage.
- doesn't really scale for multiple architectures. multiarch is not i386
on amd64/powerpc. It is everything on everything.
In short your approach may work correctly for a hundred of packages, but
doesn't really scale for the whole Debian archive and all the archive.
Also I see no point in using multiarch paths (which have been introduced
in the toolchain for the original multiarch concept) in your approach.
On the contrary the original multiarch concept doesn't generate more
packages. It basically changes the path were the files are installed,
and then (for example) the exact same package is installed on an i386
system or on an amd64 system.
This does not put any load on ftpmaster.d.o and mirrors, does not need
an infrastructure to convert packages, introduce no changes from the
security point of view and applies to all Debian architectures. The
drawback is that dpkg and apt have to be modified.
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