Re: [OE-core] libexecdir and multilib

2013-05-04 Thread Colin Walters
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 17:10 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > Both of these examples are in mainstream packages where the package > maintainers in the distro are also upstream developers, and yet these > kludges exist (note that our gdk-pixbuf is currently broken in this > respect). If someone figures

Re: [OE-core] libexecdir and multilib

2013-05-03 Thread Burton, Ross
On 2 May 2013 19:07, Mark Hatle wrote: > Just because we're using RPM doesn't mean we have to follow Fedora. There > are a lot of things that Fedora does wrong (and right) IMHO. Same with > Debian and others. We need to make sure we do appropriate choices based on > the users of OE-Core. These

Re: [OE-core] libexecdir and multilib

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Hatle
On 5/2/13 12:24 PM, Enrico Scholz wrote: "Burton, Ross" writes: rpm allows "executables" (but not libraries) to conflict and will prefer the 64-bit version, Sure? At least rpm-4 (Fedora, RHEL) does not allow files to conflict. Fedora solves the multilib problem by splitting the distribution

Re: [OE-core] libexecdir and multilib

2013-05-02 Thread Enrico Scholz
"Burton, Ross" writes: > rpm allows "executables" (but not libraries) to conflict and will > prefer the 64-bit version, Sure? At least rpm-4 (Fedora, RHEL) does not allow files to conflict. Fedora solves the multilib problem by splitting the distribution into main packages (unilib only; contain

Re: [OE-core] libexecdir and multilib

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Hatle
On 5/2/13 11:10 AM, Burton, Ross wrote: Hi all, There were several issues being discussed here under the topic of libexecdir, some simple and some less so. I'll ramble for a bit to try and get a proper conclusion debated. The situation where you have a 32-bit dropbear but a 64-bit openssh is r

[OE-core] libexecdir and multilib

2013-05-02 Thread Burton, Ross
Hi all, There were several issues being discussed here under the topic of libexecdir, some simple and some less so. I'll ramble for a bit to try and get a proper conclusion debated. The situation where you have a 32-bit dropbear but a 64-bit openssh is rather pathological and I'd like to know if