Le Mardi 14 Mars 2006 15:58, Andrew Schulman a écrit : > > >Le Dienstag 14 Februar 2006 17:04, Matthieu Helleboid a écrit : > > >> Hello,
Hello, > > >> > > >> I've made an update to amd64-archive made by Goswin von Brederlow. > > >> > > >> It will make a local repository for amd64 without a chroot for : > > >> * firefox, mozilla, opera, flash > > >> * mplayer, w32codecs > > >> * skype > > >> * openoffice > > >> > > >> Have a look at http://mhelleboid.free.fr/ > > > > I'm sorry -- I'm a bit confused about what this script does, and > > the web page didn't really explain it. Does it remove the need for > > a 32-bit chroot to run the above apps on a 64-bit system? If so, > > how? By putting the 32-bit libraries in a special location, and > > then surrounding all the above apps in a script wrapper that > > sets library paths to the new locations? That kind of thing? exactly :-) > > Right. It's not clearly explained, but from studying the page it seems > that installing amd64-archive creates an archive on your local machine of > modified packages that wrap the apps for execution in the 64-bit > environment. The archive of modified packages will be built in > /var/lib/amd64-archive. I can add some text to explain it, someone has a better description ? > > It would seem better to create these packages once and for all and offer > them in an online archive for everyone, but better this way than nothing. Yes, that was my first idea, I'll see. Matthieu
