[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Marking packages ~amd64 (or amd64) and no-multilib

[Ned Ludd]

On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:26 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> First off, I'd like to apologize for cross-posting this, but I've been
> pestered by this enough recently to want to try to reach as much of the
> developer pool as possible.
>
> If you add any amd64 KEYWORDS to *any* packages in the tree, make sure
> you've updated your profiles directory before doing your repoman scan.
> The profiles.desc file now lists default-linux/amd64/2006.0/no-multilib
> as a valid profile.  This means if you're committing something that
> requires 32-bit libraries, you *MUST* mask the package in
> default-linux/amd64/2006.0/no-multilib/package.mask *before* doing your
> commit.  This is like the 10th time in the past few weeks that I've been
> contacted directly to fix broken masks in other people's packages.

Everything Chris said but please don't overlook 
profiles/hardened/amd64 (our no-multilib)
in addition to  
profiles/hardened/amd64/multilib (our multilib)

The logic is a kinda inverted from what some of you may be used to when 
thinking of the how the default-linux profile deals with it, but we 
think it's proper the way we do it..


> It's pretty simple.  If it uses ABI=x86 or any emul-linux-x86-*
> packages, then it needs to be masked.
>
> Over and out.
>
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo Linux

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