Multi-Lib Question

[Christopher Stone]

On 8/12/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 August 2006 20:27, Christopher Stone wrote:
> > After thinking about this a bit I realize the devel packages would
> > conflict with the header files.
> >
> > It seems to me that the best solution to this problem is to create
> > noarch and arch specific devel packages. So header files can go in
> > the noarch part and the .a and .so files can go in the arch specific
> > part. The noarch package would depend on the arch specific one.
>
> Fedora Core 5's multi-lib environment was geared toward running 32bit apps,
> and only a small number of packages were setup to be multi-lib.
>
> In FC6, we're also targetting app development, and as such made some changes
> to rpm and to our tree building software so that any package that has
> a -devel subpackage will be considered multi-lib and brought into the tree.
> If you wish to test this out, please try Fedora Core 6 Test 2.
>

HI Jesse, this is great news!  Thanks for the info.  I will be looking
forward to FC6 :)