ppc and ppc64 packages in the repos (was: Re: packages online, comps files in cvs)

[David Woodhouse]

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 22:32 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 11.08.2008 22:17, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
> > Am Montag, 11. August 2008 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
> >> I pushed the packages that have been build over the past two weeks;
> >> please check that everything is there in the way it is expected:
> >> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/testing/8/
> >> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/updates/testing/9/
> >> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/development/
> > Many ppc64 rpms are located inside the normal ppc repository. And the ppc64 
> > repository itself contains only one singel rpm. Is this indended? 
> 
> The first is afaik intended, as ppc64 just like x86_64 is 
> biarch/multilib arch; PPCs system will just ignore the ppc64 packages. 
> It's the same in Fedora; see
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/ppc/
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/ppc/os/Packages/
> 
> 
> The latter IMHO is not intended, but likely the way the push scripts 
> from Extras/EPEL work/are designed. Fedora at least ships the ppc64 rpms 
> in a dedicated repo as well:
> 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/ppc64/
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Everything/ppc64/os/Packages/
> 
> dwmw2, mschwendt?

Yeah, we should have the 64-bit packages in the 64-bit repo, while it's
correct for both sets of packages to be in the 32-bit repo.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
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