-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Hello, > > I'm shortly going to be deploying a new general purpose login host on > etch. As our old system is i386 and our new system amd64, I have > installed the ia32-libs package, to give user-compiled code a chance of > working, but having inspected the contents of the package, it seems to > contain quite a lot of .so files repackaged from the i386 binaries, and > I'm concerned that these won't be security supported (I've seen no > security updates for this package). > > Is my analysis correct, and I shouldn't install this package in a > production environment? > > Thanks, > Dominic. >
Correct me if i'm wrong, but code compiled natively on the amd64 machine should work fine. It's the precompiled i386 code that will cause issues, assuming that you'd install the same lib packages for the amd64 machine as you would i386. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIFXOKLeTfO4yBSAcRAhGvAJ9xboqM4dEfZtloettd56uBsHtcdACggzgz EoW/GC7Ix4lFWtS2w89ZWX4= =9qpH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
