> I was the person in question. I'm using Suse Pro 9.2, yum 2.2.1, and > rpm 4.1.1. I managed to get the yum rpm to build with only a few > modifications to the spec file. I can send it to you if you would like. > > There have been some issues: > - Many of the x86_64 packages in Suse 9.2 also have i586 counterparts. > This confuses yum considerably, sometimes to the point of endless > dependency loops. You can get around this by specifying your exact > architecture, i.e. "yum install rrdtool.x86_64" grumble. On rh/fedora systems you don't run into dependency issues for the multilib packages. That would get irritating, I agree. on the one hand I would say this is a packaging error. On the other hand, I can see how annoying it would be. Have you talked to suse to see if they acknowledge it as a packaging error? > - Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to specify architectures in a > yumgroups.xml file, which complicates matters when you want to do a > groupinstall. Or is there a way, Seth? currently groups have no concept of anything more than package name. > - I also tried a "yum install libstdc++-devel.i586" when > libstdc++-devel.x86_64 was already installed. This failed with yum > telling me that libstdc++-devel was already in place. So there are a > few multi-arch issues arising from differences between RH and SuSE. fun, fun, fun, fun. -sv
