On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 02:39:34PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Patrice Dumas (pertusus(a)free.fr) said:
> How are the multilib conflicts tested? I'd like to verify that there are
> no conflicts anymore before building.
Install x86_64 package. Then, in separate transaction, install i386 package.
I can't do that in my system since I have an i386. Were the bugreports
done that way?
> Also will this be extended to binary files?
Depends. ELF files? No. Other binary files? (data, etc.) - yes.
Ok. My personal opinion is that it would be better to extend to ELF files
too, but there is considerable controversy on that subject, and on how
to fix the multiarch issue.
> And last what to do when the conflict is 'logical'? I
have 2 examples in
> the bes package:
>
> * there is a bes-config file which specifies the directory where
> dlopened backend modules are, this is a %_libdir subdirectory, so,
> it is logical to have a difference between arches.
The general way to do this is making the *-config script call pkg-config.
Ok. This requires collaboration with upstream, but it is worth pursuing.
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Pat