Bill Nottingham (notting@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > Jakub Jelinek (jakub@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > But that's just rpm bug, it shouldn't always prefer 64bit rpms over 32bit > > ones, instead decide based on how it was configured. > > For x86_64, it should be obviously defined to prefer 64bit, I think > > on s390x similarly (there 64-bit code can do direct calls rather than > > go through the literal pool all the time etc.). On ppc and sparc > > it should on the other side prefer 32bit rpms over 64bit. > > This runs into problems on ppc64 installs when the ioctl/etc > compatiblity layer is either a) missing b) broken. Also, just changing the %prefer64 setting requires changing more than that, as there are ordering implications in upper-level tools that need conditionalized if this changes. Bill
