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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:51:09 +0200
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Keith Scroggins wrote:
> The biggest problem arises when a package is a mixture of libs and 
> binaries, not sure, yet, what to do for it.  Multiple dev libs for each 
> target will cause RPM issues since headers will conflict between them if 
> you want multiple CPU targets.

We should follow the following rules:

1) 1 source package -> many binary packages

2) Includes and static libraries should only go into -dev binary 
packages. Such packages should include all the multilib versions, in 
order to encourage people to produce other libraries and executables for 
all the multilib alternatives.

3) Executables should have their own binary packages, with man/info 
pages. Basically with everything required to run the programs, but 
without any development stuff like includes, etc. Such executables 
should be optimized for one specific multilib only. For example, Falcon 
users will install the 68020-60 executables, they don't care about 68000 
or ColdFire programs which will be either less efficient or not runnable.

I believe RPM-based Linux distributions are probably already designed 
like this, isn't it ? Thus we would just have to follow their packaging 
conventions, adapted for multilib.

-- 
Vincent Rivière