Push scripts, mash (was: Re: FESCo wants to ban direct stable pushes in Bodhi (urgent call for feedback))

[Matthew Woehlke]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:30:05 -0600, Matthew wrote:
>> Probably because
>> I need multilib and have never experienced multilib-related problems (or
>> if I have, they were so trivial as to be thoroughly forgettable).
>
> Just out of interest, does enabling a separate 32-bit repository on a
> 64-bit installation lead to more/severe problems than using a multiarch
> repo?

I haven't tried it, but it at least introduces the question 'what 
coreutils/X/KDE do you want?'.

Of course, I'd say that if that works decently, you're still providing 
functional multilib. So I don't really care about how it happens under 
the hood, as long as it works.

>> (From that, I guess that you consider testing of a
>> 32-bit program invalid unless done on a pure 32-bit kernel?
>
> No. I think it depends on what sort of program would be tested.
> A 32-bit multlib development environment on a 64-bit installation
> does not add a full 32-bit run-time environment.

Hmm, maybe then you are thinking of things that are far less 
stand-alone. The only "run-time environment" we care about is that the 
program can be executed (so, kernel can load it, glibc.i?86 exists, 
etc.). We tend to have very few if any dependencies beyond libc (and 
even then, beyond libc/libm/libpthread, we usually provide our own).

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