Re: Cross-arch dependencies for plugins (NSS and others)

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On Mon, Feb 24, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Sometimes, users run into problems because they install nss_nis on
> x86_64 and want to use 32-bit applications, but those do not work
> correctly because nss_nis.i686 is not installed.  I think we have an
> opportunity here to improve the system administrator experience with
> reasonable effort.
> 
> If we add this to nss_nis.spec:
> 
> %ifarch x86_64
> Recommends: (nss_nis(x86-32) if glibc(x86-32))
> %endif

What about also adding

%ifarch i686
Supplements: (glibc(x86-32) if (nss_nis(x86-64))
%endif

(Untested)

I'd greatly prefer to avoid hard deps where they aren't absolutely necessary.

V/r,
James Cassell


> 
> then when the user installs nss_nis after glibc.i686, they will get both
> packages, as expected.
> 
> Unfortunately, it does not work if nss_nis.x86_64 is installed first.
> Is there a way to fix this aspect?
> 
> What would be a good way to abstract this into some RPM macro, so that
> we can apply this to other plugins as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
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