[ATrpms-devel] How to handle multilib

[Preet Khalsa]

On Mon, 2006-01-05 at 10:00 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> 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.

The reason I enable i386 libs is because I like to run firefox i386 so
that I can have the flash plugin.  I also like to run mplayer on i386 so
that I can get w32codecs.  I need this to mencoder WMF.  Maybe this is
too specific to me to have included in the repos.

Preet