Hi all, let's pick up this discussion again.
On 2011-07-25 19:03, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 18:57:17 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > >> What is the correct approach to do alternatives of libraries in >> Multi-Arch: yes packages? >> * a separate alternative for each architecture (allows weird mixed >> configurations) This is probably the way to go since there may be many "valid" combinations thanks to multiarch. Eventually a new "update-glx" utility could be introduced that allows easy configuration of sane combinations: update-glx --set nvidia which would update the libGL.so.1 alternatives for i386 and amd64 (if available) >> * one alternative (from an extra Multi-Arch: foreign package) that >> covers all arches as slaves links? That's the way currently done by glx-alternatives - but it only covers amd64 and i386, a generic extension will be difficult. >> * the Ubuntu approach of dropping something in ld.so.conf.d/ - would we ... > Pretty please not messing with ld.so.conf. OK, lets forget about this. I'm about to send a patch for MESA which moves libGL.so* from $libdir to $libdir/mesa/ and adds libGL.so and libGL.so.1 symlinks from $libdir to the file in $libdir/mesa/. This is a preparative step, the links in $libdir are to be replaced by alternatives later on. For now, they will still be diverted by glx-diversions. glx-alternative-mesa has already been updated to take $libdir/mesa into account. To effectively use diversions, the real files (libGL.so.1.*) need to be moved out of $libdir, otherwise ldconfig may mess up the SONAME links. With the current change it will already be possible to stop diverting libGL.so. I did not yet look into EGL, but I think it needs to be done similarily there - move all libs that may get alternatives to $libdir/mesa/ Does XSF plan to backport MESA 7.11 to squeeze-backports? Is there a planned timeframe? If my patch for the directory structure is accepted and will go to squeeze-backports, too, it would significantly simplify my plans for backporting nvidia-graphics-drivers. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e9c1a11.7030...@abeckmann.de
