[ATrpms-devel] How to handle multilib

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:25:32PM -0400, Preet Khalsa wrote:
> I use atrpms and like it.  My machine is x86_64 and I make fair use of
> multilib so that I can mix and match x86_64 and i386 packages.
> 
> The problem I have is atrpms-package-config and medley-package-config
> are arch specific and use the same file names for each package.  So I
> end up manually editting the channels creating a *-i386 channel file for
> each one.  My base is x86_64.
> 
> Is there a way to have separate file names for i386 & x86_64?  Or can we
> have i386 channels included in the x86_64 package and disabled on
> install so that we crazy types can enable?

The packages that need to be multilib are already in the x86_64
repo. If something is missing then it's a bug and needs to be
fixed. That's the procedure red Hat is following, too, e.g. only place
those i386 bits in x86_64 repos that will be of value, if x86_64 has
complete support for a topic otherwise, don't include i386 packages.

> Many thanks for the labour and thought behind atrpms.

You're welcome :=)
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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