tag 605077 patch thanks On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 07:32:02PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> Fakeroot doesn't provide for example >> /usr/lib32/fakeroot/libfakeroot-sysv.so, which makes it impossible to >> create an i386 fakechroot on an amd64 system. >> >> For example, the following will fail >> >> $ export PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin >> $ fakeroot fakechroot debootstrap --variant=fakechroot --arch=i386 squeeze >> ./chroot http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian >> >> Note that on i386 the fakeroot package does provide the necessary >> 64-bit libraries. Thanks for looking into this. > > They were removed in order to close #538037. The alternative was a > Pre-Depends > on libc6-i386, which would have been ridiculous. > > If you have an idea of how to fix this before squeeze is released, I'm > listening.
Bug #538037 may have been a relic of the old lib32->/emul symlink situation. I just restored biarch support for amd64 fakeroot and found that libc6-i386 installed just fine even if though the new biarch fakeroot was installed. Attached is my patch. Mike
diff -Nru fakeroot-1.14.4/debian/rules fakeroot-1.14.4/debian/rules --- fakeroot-1.14.4/debian/rules 2009-11-14 22:06:33.000000000 -0500 +++ fakeroot-1.14.4/debian/rules 2010-11-26 20:51:35.000000000 -0500 @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ # cd obj-sysv && ./libtool --finish $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr/lib/fakeroot rm -f debian/tmp/usr/lib/libfakeroot/libfakeroot.*a* rm -f debian/tmp/usr/bin/simple -ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE), sparc-linux-gnu s390-linux-gnu i486-linux-gnu powerpc-linux-gnu ppc64-linux-gnui x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu)) +ifneq (,$(findstring $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE), sparc-linux-gnu s390-linux-gnu x86_64-linux-gnu i486-linux-gnu powerpc-linux-gnu ppc64-linux-gnui x86_64-kfreebsd-gnu)) $(MAKE) -f debian/rules binary-biarch endif $(INSTALL_FILE) debian/copyright debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/copyright
