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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-7664

Multi-Arch support for Debian packages

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        • Type: Bug
        • Status: Open
        • Priority: Minor
        • Resolution: Unresolved
        • Affects Version/s: 10.0, 5.5
        • Fix Version/s: 10.1
        • Component/s: Platform Debian
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          Hi! Your Debian packages are built without Multi-Arch support, so it's not possible to install say 64-bit MariaDB in a 32-bit Debian system (for example I want to do it to experiment with TokuDB on my 32-bit server; I use 32-bit because it consumes considerably less memory compared to 64).

          I suggest you to make libmariadbclient18 Multi-Arch: same (and place libraries in /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu or /usr/lib/x86_64-linux_gnu, not just in /usr/lib) (Multi-Arch: same means both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of package can coexist), and mysql-common and mariadb-common Multi-Arch: foreign (this means such package can satisfy the dependency of a package of a different architecture).

          That's a rather simple packaging improvement.

          More info is on https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO

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                Task - A task that needs to be done. MDEV-6284 Merge downstream Debian/Ubuntu packaging into upstream MariaDB

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                  elenst Elena Stepanova added a comment -

                  Assigning to Otto Kekäläinen for consideration/feedback.

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                  elenst Elena Stepanova added a comment - Assigning to Otto Kekäläinen for consideration/feedback.
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                  vitalif Vitaliy Filippov added a comment -

                  P.S: mariadb-server-10.0 also depends on perl and libdbi-perl; libdbi-perl is not "multi-arch: foreign", so it should also be changed to "libdbi-perl:amd64 | libdbi-perl:i386" so 64-bit MariaDB could coexist with 32-bit Perl...

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                  vitalif Vitaliy Filippov added a comment - P.S: mariadb-server-10.0 also depends on perl and libdbi-perl; libdbi-perl is not "multi-arch: foreign", so it should also be changed to "libdbi-perl:amd64 | libdbi-perl:i386" so 64-bit MariaDB could coexist with 32-bit Perl...
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                  otto Otto Kekäläinen added a comment -

                  At the moment in Debian mariadb-common is defined as Multi-arch: foreign (https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.0/blob/master/debian/control#L47). Libmariadbclient18 does not exist as it conflicts with the libmysqlclient18 present in Debian repositories.

                  The packaging at upstream mariadb.org has not yet meen updated to match the newer packaging standards that the official Debian project packages have. At that point this and other improvements will be merged upstream.

                  Besides the control file stanzas, another thing to consider is the file locations and e.g. https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-6135 is still open.

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                  otto Otto Kekäläinen added a comment - At the moment in Debian mariadb-common is defined as Multi-arch: foreign ( https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.0/blob/master/debian/control#L47 ). Libmariadbclient18 does not exist as it conflicts with the libmysqlclient18 present in Debian repositories. The packaging at upstream mariadb.org has not yet meen updated to match the newer packaging standards that the official Debian project packages have. At that point this and other improvements will be merged upstream. Besides the control file stanzas, another thing to consider is the file locations and e.g. https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-6135 is still open.
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                  vitalif Vitaliy Filippov added a comment -

                  >At that point this and other improvements will be merged upstream.
                  ...At what point?..

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                  vitalif Vitaliy Filippov added a comment - >At that point this and other improvements will be merged upstream. ...At what point?..

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                    • Assignee:
                      otto Otto Kekäläinen
                      Reporter:
                      vitalif Vitaliy Filippov
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