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Summary: Review Request: libhugetlbfs - easy access to huge pages of memory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196057
------- Additional Comments From jwilson@redhat.com 2006-06-26 10:20 EST ------- Okay, the hugetlbd issue...
What normally happens with packages in Fedora when we want both some 32-bit and 64-bit components available on a 64-bit system, is that the package is broken up in such a way that there is no overlap in packages we want to have both variants of. Whenever possible, we only put the 64-bit variants in bin and sbin, and the 32-bit pieces are generally only the libraries and headers. So what I'd suggest in this case is splitting hugetlbd and ld.hugetlbfs off into another sub-packages so the libhugetlbfs and libhugetlbfs-devel 32-bit packages can be cleanly installed concurrently with the 64-bit ones.
Whether hugetlbd actually gets built 32-bit or 64-bit doesn't actually matter to the packaging discussion above (it'll still go in an x86_64.rpm on the 64-bit build). However, the general preference is that if it can be built 64-bit, build it 64-bit, and that's the version that'll get installed on 64-bit systems.
So long story short, lets throw hugetlbd and ld.hugetlbfs into a -utils or -apps sub-package, and move on from there. :)