* Martin Michlmayr | Basically, there has been a lot of discussions about multi-arch and | some people seem to think that after sarge we'll _obviously_ move to | multi-arch. Well, this is not so obvious to me. In particular, I see | no consensus among ftpmaster/archive people, release people, toolchain | people, porters, and basically everyone else that this is the way to | go. If we decide to go with multi-arch, we need: | | - agreement of all these people | - a _clear_ plan about this migration (and have this plan before | sarge is out), including a clear timeplan (announcement on day X, | maintainers have Y months to upload, if they don't do it in Y | months, we'll have a time of Z people who'll NMU the packages by | G).
We don't need to transition the full archive to multiarch at all, but we need support in a bunch of core packages: glibc (for ld-linux.so) (or whatever your libc is called if you're on a !glibc platform), gcc and binutils. If not, you need to modify /etc/ld.so.conf and add -L/usr/lib/$(gcc -dumpmachine) to all your compile lines, neither which is nice. To say it again: a full-scale migration is _not_ needed. I'm fine with us just having the support in dpkg, glibc, gcc and binutils for etch. I would like to have more than that ready and a bunch of fairly core libraries ready to rock, but it's not needed. Not transitioning all libraries is really no worse than having a split of libraries between /usr/lib and /lib; it's just yet another place to store libraries. | - a proof of concept (this may exist already) I'm working on that. If you are on i386 and would like to play around a bit with it, deb http://multiarch.err.no/ multiarch/all/ deb http://multiarch.err.no/ multiarch/$(ARCH)/ are the deb lines you might want. Note that this is _EXPERIMENTAL_ work. That means stuff breaks, there is no security support and I would strongly advise against running this outside a chroot until it has matured. This has a split libc6 package and if you have a multiarch-capable dpkg, you can install both the i386 and amd64 libc6s. | - agreement with some upstream LSB people that it's a good idea for | Debian to pioneer this in the hope that others will follow suite | (rather than a way of Debian to make itself incompatible with | the rest of the world). [Chris Yeoh and taggart are the people | to talk to.] TTBOMK, «the others» are watching, but as this is a fairly big change, they want to see of it goes before going the same way as us. -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
