On 4/25/05, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well there are plans for openoffice 2.x to be 64bit compatible so it cna > run natively instead.
Yes, but the release date for openoffice 2.x has been pushed back, and if we are unlucky, they might drop 64bit support, too :-( At least I have not seen a working version anywhere as of yet. > I thought there were openoffice packages for 64bit that just required > some libs installed in the chroot/emul dir but would otherwise run as if > they were 64bit programs. Yes, and I think using a chroot is ok for the time being. In the long run, we have to simplify this. Maybe the 64bit dpkg can also look after the chroot? Kind of multiarch light? I can see some potential there. The problem I have with the chroot solution is that is it so amazingly ugly. The openoffice package needs special treatement, the user has to set up the chroot and change /etc/ld.so.config, dependencies do not work properly, and the changed /etc/ld.so.config interferes with library upgrades. But I am afraid that any change for the better requires at least a basic multiarch support in dpkg. And that seems a long way off. Thomas