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I'm going to forward this to the amd64 lead, who already spoke with me |
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about this in the ppc64 context. He has some very good ideas on the |
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biarch thing. (our current way works but is rather clumsy, he'll tell.) |
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We need to create a good plan to support biarchs (or multi-archs in |
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general). |
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Best regards, |
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Pieter Van den Abeele |
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On 31 May 2004, at 07:07, Andy Lutomirski wrote: |
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> (I may be misguided in some of this because I've never actually used |
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> Gentoo.) |
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> I plan on switching Gentoo soon on my AMD64 machine. I haven't yet |
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> found a distro that handled 32-bit compatibility well (debian's way |
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> just sounds pointless, fedora fails miserably, SuSE is decent), but it |
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> seems like Gentoo has the potential to do very well. Here's an idea: |
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> For each ebuild (slot), portage would allow multiple architectures to |
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> be "installed." One would be "master" -- this works normally. |
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> Everything thereafter would be a "compat" install or something -- only |
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> libraries (that is, files that do not exist in the master) would get |
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> installed. |
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> So: |
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> foo - AMD64 (master) installs /usr/bin/foo, /etc/foo.conf, and |
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> /usr/lib64/libfoo.so |
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> foo - x86 (compat) installs only /usr/lib/libfoo.so |
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> Then packages should by default depend on their own arch's version. |
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> Furthermore, a "default" arch should be selectable, so that, if amd64 |
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> was default, x86's gtk would depend on amd64's gtk, and amd64's would |
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> be installed as master. A tool to switch from x86 master to amd64 |
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> master (by remerging both) would be nice, as ebuilds will be gradually |
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> fixed to work on amd64. |
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> Some provision for arch-independant ebuilds would also help. |
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> With a feature like this, I want to be able to do: |
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> # emerge --arch x86 gtk |
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> so that I can run some 32-bit binary. I then want |
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> # emerge --arch amd64 --master gtk |
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> to build the amd64 version and replace any executables that the x86 |
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> build may have installed, so x86 becomes the slave. |
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> Is something like this reasonable? |
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> --Andy |
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