Re: ia32-libs security support
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Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm shortly going to be deploying a new general purpose login host on
> etch. As our old system is i386 and our new system amd64, I have
> installed the ia32-libs package, to give user-compiled code a chance of
> working, but having inspected the contents of the package, it seems to
> contain quite a lot of .so files repackaged from the i386 binaries, and
> I'm concerned that these won't be security supported (I've seen no
> security updates for this package).
>
> Is my analysis correct, and I shouldn't install this package in a
> production environment?
>
> Thanks,
> Dominic.
>
Correct me if i'm wrong, but code compiled natively on the amd64 machine
should work fine.
It's the precompiled i386 code that will cause issues, assuming that
you'd install the same lib packages for the amd64 machine as you would i386.
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