Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-30 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Michael Tsang writes: > I have a recommendation for 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems: > > Now, some libraries are available on 64-bit systems as lib32* but these are > very few. To improve this situation, I think that we can organise the library > packages as follows: > > For a library with s

Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/6/26 Luca Bruno : > David Kalnischkies scrisse: >> The biggest showstoppers are as far as i know that >> a) dpkg doesn't support it >> b) APT doesn't support it >> c) (not many) packages use it (last time i check ~24) >> >> c) is likely caused by a) and b) which in fact decreases the >> motiva

Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-26 Thread Luca Bruno
David Kalnischkies scrisse: > The biggest showstoppers are as far as i know that > a) dpkg doesn't support it > b) APT doesn't support it > c) (not many) packages use it (last time i check ~24) > > c) is likely caused by a) and b) which in fact decreases the > motivation for a) and b) to impleme

Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-26 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 01:14:43PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: > If you look closer, MultiArch was at least for squeeze on the goal list. > I guess it is pretty unlikely that we will make it, but i think it was more > on the list to get a bit of noise and some progress - That's not why it wa

Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Michael Tsang (and hi d...@l.d.o) 2010/6/24 Michael Tsang : > I have a recommendation for 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems: > > Now, some libraries are available on 64-bit systems as lib32* but these are > very few. To improve this situation, I think that we can organise the library > package

Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-23 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Michael Tsang wrote: > I have a recommendation for 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems: Multi-arch would be a better way to go: http://wiki.debian.org/multiarch http://www.lackof.org/taggart/hacking/multiarch/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise --

Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-23 Thread Michael Tsang
I have a recommendation for 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems: Now, some libraries are available on 64-bit systems as lib32* but these are very few. To improve this situation, I think that we can organise the library packages as follows: For a library with soname libfoo.so.1, we can make the f