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Re: ia32-libs security support



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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Rich Healey <healey.rich@gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
>> Correct me if i'm wrong, but code compiled natively on the amd64 machine
>> should work fine.
> 
> 1) ia64 has no toolchain support for i486
> 2) too late for lenny to make frozen libraries compile new packages
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The precompiled debs are unpacked and files moved around, deleted or
> edited (like shlibs files). Most notably libraries move to
> /emul/ia32-linux/[usr/]lib/.
> 
> This has all been worked out long ago already as the big fat ia32-libs
> package already does all those transformations.
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin

Goswin,

Thanks for clearing this up.

Regards


Rich Healey
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