On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:54:01 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > Recently, gaim went away and pidgin showed up in Extras. All of a sudden, > nothing brought in perl to be multilib. I mistakenly assumed that perl had > never been multilib and things were just noticing. We had big discussions > around perl/gaim and multilib around FC6 release time and I forgot the > outcome, and I simply was an idiot and didn't look at the FC6 tree, which > clearly shows perl was multilib. > > To resolve this, I have added perl to a "whitelist" to force it to be multilib > again, since pidgin isn't in core to pull it in. This will resolve all these > broken deps for Fedora 7, without making further drastic changes to the perl > package. > > Perl should once again be multilib with tonight's rawhide. Hmmm ... recently you've said it (Perl multi-lib) doesn't work at all. > This problem wouldn't have come up had we already been merged, since pidgin > would be available during the compose, depsolved, and brought in the perl > multilib. Pidgin introduces a full new set of packages, which replace/obsolete the old gaim packages. Isn't that enough to upgrade from an old fc6 multi-lib gaim to the fc7 64-bit pidgin? -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly