EPEL Project collaboration and supplementary arch support

[Simone Caronni]

On 20 March 2014 22:55, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:

>
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2014 13:40:42 +0100
> Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > as a contributor I would really like to have i686 as one of the main
> > architectures. With the current situation, there's no chance to
> > rebuild many of the packages that could benefit of RHEL 7 multilib
> > support. RHEL 7 supports 32 bit programs, but we're not really able
> > to use them in EPEL.
> >
> > Quick example: I maintain Steam for Fedora, and would like to add it
> > also to the RPMFusion's EPEL repository; but the package is 32 bit
> > only and there is currently no way to package 32 bit dependencies
> > (like SDL2) into EPEL 7.
>
> EPEL doesnt support multilib at all. so its really not going to help
> you here.
>

I'm not sure I got it. If I look at current EPEL 6 I have multiple
architectures in place (libvdpau example):

Installed Packages
libvdpau.x86_64                            0.7-1.el6
@epel
Available Packages
libvdpau.i686                              0.7-1.el6
epel
libvdpau-devel.i686                        0.7-1.el6
epel
libvdpau-devel.x86_64                      0.7-1.el6
epel
libvdpau-docs.noarch                       0.7-1.el6
epel

What I was saying it's that it would be nice to have the same kind of
support for EPEL 7 when CentOS i686 trees will appear.

Regards,
--Simone

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