Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-09-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 2009-07-20 09:19, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-20 14:52 +0200, David Fox wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository? Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly

64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
I understand why there's a linux-image-2.6.30-1-amd64, because you can run with a 64-bit kernel and 32-bit userland (which is what I currently do...), and I can understand that there'd be 32-bit libraries in the amd64 repos. But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository?

Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-07-20 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository? Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly 32-bit userland setup. I guess this would work with a 32-bit kernel. For much the same

Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-07-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-07-20 14:52 +0200, David Fox wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository? Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly 32-bit userland setup. I guess this

Re: 64-bit *libraries* in 32-bit repositories???

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 09:19, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-07-20 14:52 +0200, David Fox wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: But why the opposite, like lib64bz2-1.0 in the i386 repository? Maybe just for the converse reason, running amd64 binaries on a mostly