FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted Feb 23, 2012 15:04 UTC (Thu) by branden (guest, #7029)
Parent article: FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Awesome work, Wookey. Mad props, as it were.

Having seen this work get started back in the day, it's gratifying to see it starting to bear fruit. :)

FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted Feb 23, 2012 19:00 UTC (Thu) by dashesy (guest, #74652) [Link] (1 responses)

This is just great!
I wish this was available for Fedora, but Debian seems to be the distribution of choice for multiarch development.

FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted Feb 25, 2012 0:57 UTC (Sat) by wookey (guest, #5501) [Link]

There is some interest in this from fedora. They are going to have to deal with arm, x32 and arm64 in the not too distant future. That's encouraging them to look at whether they could use multiarch. I gather there is both resistance to, and enthusiasm for, the idea, depending who you talk to (more resitance than enthusiasm so far, but it's early days :-)

We are doing our best in linaro to at least make sure we don't do incompatible things between distros, and there is some LSB work needed to make a distro-independent spec.

FOSDEM: Multiarch on Debian and Ubuntu

Posted Feb 25, 2012 0:38 UTC (Sat) by wookey (guest, #5501) [Link]

Don't credit me Brandon, credit Steve Langasek. He's the one that done an amazing amount of consensus building, roadblock-stomping, tedious grunt-work and generally being one of those 'rock-stars' that actually gets difficult things done.

I'm just helping out and trying to get the cross-building aspects of this to fruition.