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diff --git a/substvars b/substvars new file mode 100644 index 0000000..56891ac --- /dev/null +++ b/substvars @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Common-Description: + ProteanOS library packages are having their host architectures appended to + their names, in order to allow coinstallation of different architecture builds + of each library for the purpose of cross-building dependent source packages. + For more information, see: + . + http://www.proteanos.com/dev/multiarch/ + . + Renaming library packages would temporarily break the installation of all other + packages that depend on them, so temporary transitional packages are necessary. + The libraries' source packages can't build such transitional packages + themselves, because opkbuild automatically renames library packages and won't + allow two binary packages in one source package to share the same name (before + acrhictecture qualification). So the transitional packages are built by a + separate source package called "malt", or "multiarch library transitions". |