Q on multilib

[jpg153]

Hi,

I now have installed the multilib environment under Salix64 14.0.

After all was done I installed Softmaker-Office and all ran fine.

But later on, gslapt gave me updates for some of the libs that were made by AlienBob and which were made to support 32&64bit.
Was it ok to update these libs or do I need to reinstall them?

I am talking about (just examples, not complete listing):

• gcc-g++-4.7.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz
  ...
  gcc-java-4.7.1_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz
  ...
  glibc-2.15_multilib-x86_64-8alien.txz
  ...
  glibc-solibs-2.15_multilib-x86_64-8alien.txz

Thanks in advance.

[mimosa]

Do you mean you were offered to downgrade the libs you list to non-multilib versions, or to other versions also packaged by alien and also multilib?

It's a while since I've done this, but I think you need to exclude those packages in slaptgetrc/ GSlapt, and I believe the instructions mention it too.

EDIT

See here for an easy way to do it and also on excludes.

I'm assuming those excludes are needed however you do it, could someone please confirm and maybe update the wiki accordingly?

[jpg153]

Hi,

well, yes that is exactly what happened, so I need to blacklist/exclude these libs in Gslapt.

Thanks for the link to the message, which I read already yesterday but not that part...

[mimosa]

That wiki page is actually totally out of date (Salix 13.0) but should still make sense in conjunction with AlienBob's page it links to, which is not.

However the forum post is definitely the way to go - a clever script by djemos to automate the entire process.

[gapan]

The wiki page is not at all out of date. If you just replace "13.0" with "14.1" the instructions should work just the same. It even says that it describes the minimal steps to have it work in salix. If after installation, you have to exclude packages from upgrading, that's the same as when installing anything outside the packages available in the repositories.

[jpg153]

Gapan,

yes, the document itself is ok, as it mentions all other trees upwards.

However I think about of adding some options - but then it would no longer be the "minimal steps"...so maybe a new document.