On Friday, 27 April 2007 at 19:32, Axel Thimm wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:35:03PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 17:10 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote: [...] > > > mplayer on certain codecs come to mind, which would also benefit from > > > allowing both of them to install. mplayer foo fails? Then just try > > > /usr/bin/mplayer foo? It just works w/o packaging mplayer-32 on > > > x86_64? Great. > > > > This is solved with our existing setup, by just installing the 32-bit > > mplayer and not the 64-bit one. > > # yum install mplayer.i386 > file /usr/bin/mplayer from mplayer.i386 conflicts with file /usr/bin/mplayer from installed mplayer.x86_64 > <rant> > # yum remove mplayer > mplayer is needed by ... > <rant, rant, rant> > # rpm -e --nodeps mplayer > # yum install mplayer.i386 > <wait, wait, wait> > # mplayer foo > <hm, mplayer.i386 cannot play it either, or I just want my x86_64 version back> > # yum install mplayer.x86_64 > file /usr/bin/mplayer from mplayer.x86_64 conflicts with file /usr/bin/mplayer from installed mplayer.i386 > <argh, slamming keyboard against the display> > # rpm -e --nodeps mplayer.x86_64; yum install mplayer > Sorry, you are offline, please try later > <throwing the laptop off the plane> Currently it's no better. Assume we have 64bit mplayer installed. $ mplayer foo doesn't work, needs 32bit binary blob codecs # yum install mplayer.i386 $ mplayer foo still doesn't work! aargh, why? oh, wait, rpm just ignored the 32bit binary even though there's a file conflict! <throwing laptop off the plane> > The better solution: > > # yum install mplayer.i386 > # goi386 mplayer foo > <hm, mplayer.i386 cannot play it either, or I just want my x86_64 version back> s,goi386,chroot /emul, and we have Gentoo or Debian's pure64 solution. It's not a better solution, it's a different solution. Heck, it solves a different problem! > # mplayer foo > <OK, that was smooth, now I have time for solving the world hunger problem> You don't need bin64 for that. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- 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
