2009/4/19 Björn Persson: > I'm trying to learn how to build packages for Fedora. My first question is > about multilib development packages. > > I know that compiled libraries can be installed in both 32-bit and 64-bit > versions at the same time, but is this required for -devel packages as well? > That is, is it normal to compile both 32-bit and 64-bit programs on the same > host, so that one needs both libwhatever-devel.i386 and > libwhatever-devel.x86_64, or is it permissible for the two versions of > libwhatever-devel to conflict with each other? > > Björn Persson > This is a dilemma we have in Fedora. I have no idea why someone would want to keep the devel subpackages of the same package with different archs installed. Even adding a %doc makes these devel subpackages conflict each other. I do wonder what is the logic laying behind. Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
