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SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 24, 2010 21:41 UTC (Thu) by MisterIO (guest, #36192)
In reply to: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure by RCL
Parent article: SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

I may be somewhat naive here, but what about 32 and 64 bit versions of .deb and .rpm packages?


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SELF: Anatomy of an (alleged) failure

Posted Jun 25, 2010 13:50 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

On current Fedora, you can install 32 and 64 bit versions happyly (most of the time), the installed packages do share non-architectured stuff (like manpages and whatnot). Yes, it does require some delicate juggling when building the packages to make sure said manpages and such are exactly equal and some other considerations.

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