How are i386 packages selected for x86_64 repos?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Sep 20 19:58:41 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 21:21:48 +0200,
  Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 09:50:58 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> 
> You can take a look at the current tool that fills the biarch repos.
> It's "mash", written in Python, and in the Fedora repo. The basic
> pkg selection scheme is to add all -devel pkgs and their dependencies,
> plus packages from a whitelist and minus packages from a blacklist.

Thanks. Knowing the approach used is helpful. I still want to look at doing
it based on provides and see what that gives. Having access to a whitelist
and blacklist if I need to use them will be better than trying to maintain
my own.




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