Re: Multi-architecture package support

["Jonathan Perkin" <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2012-06-04 at 19:28 BST, David Brownlee wrote:

> On 1 June 2012 15:31, Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For anyone interested, I have an initial implementation of
> > multi-architecture packages.  This is something we need at Joyent to
> > avoid having to provide package sets for both 32bit and 64bit, and I
> > figured it might be useful for other Solaris users too.
> >
> > Ultimately it'd be great to have this merged into pkgsrc, however it
> > does require modifications to any package for which multi-architecture
> > support is desired.  Thus I'd appreciate any feedback on whether there
> > is any demand for this feature, or less intrusive ways of implementing
> > it.  One thought is that it may potentially be useful on OSX to
> > provide fat binaries (32+64 x86, rather than x86+ppc), and it should
> > be relatively straight-forward to add such functionality.
> >
> > The commit and a description is here:
> >
> >  https://github.com/joyent/pkgsrc/commit/d64f78a9aecb10b89677c9fec7d7fd6fb32dc46d
> 
> Very nice :)
> 
> Presumably this would work for Linux 64bit machines building 32+64bit
> packages? (And theoretically for NetBSD is if decided to do the
> same...)?

Yes, should work fine, I'd be interested to hear reports on this..

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