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This package delivers a set of pre-compiled ia32 (i386 family) shared
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libraries, so that ia32 Linux applications can be executed on ia64 systems.
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This is a lame hack to solve this problem for the Debian 3.0 (woody) release,
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and should be replaced or updated with a better solution for later releases.
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The "right" way to do this will be to extend the Debian package management
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toolset so that it understands how to install packages from multiple
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architectures onto a single system, perhaps with some sort of sorting of
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choices by architecture preference. There are a number of resulting issues
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that need to be sorted out, however. Too many packages install architecture
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dependent files in paths that do not have an architecture specific component,
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so installing the same package from more than one architecture on the same
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system would cause file overlaps.
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The implementation of this package is similar to the TurboLinux package of
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the same name it was inspired by. We take a set of ia32 .deb's from the
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binary-i386 tree in Debian, unpack them, and repackage them for delivery into
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a special directory tree on the ia64 system. Appropriate ldconfig calls in
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the postinst script register the delivered libraries with the dynamic loader.
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So, as long as all the shared libraries needed by the application in question
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are included in this package, the application should "just work" once this
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If more libraries are needed, file wishlist severity bugs against ia32-libs
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in the Debian bug tracking system at bugs.debian.org and we'll try to oblige.
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-- Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>, Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:23:22 -0700
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